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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Winter Home + Garden Design Donate to the HOLIDAY FUND page 30

Spectrum 20 Eating 29 Movies 33 Title Pages 35 Home 37 Q News Caltrain ‘modernization’ to worsen Alma congestion Page 5 Q Arts ‘Eurydice’: a modern play based on ancient myth

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Q Sports SHP boys keep soccer streak intact

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Report: Caltrain ‘modernization’ to worsen Alma congestion Palo Alto raises red flags about traffic, Caltrain’s ‘omissions’ in project analysis

by Gennady Sheyner altrain’s plan to power its ments come with a bitter pill: a trains by electricity rather significant and unavoidable worsthan diesel is expected to ening of traffic conditions at three improve service, help the envi- already congested intersections of ronment and boost ridership and Alma Street.

Even as Caltrain touts its elecrevenues for the agency when its first modern trains roll out in trification plan as an important way to get cars off the roads, it 2019.

But for Palo Alto, which boasts acknowledges in its environmenthe second busiest train station in tal analysis that several streets the entire system, these improve- near the 51-mile corridor will see

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traffic conditions go from bad to worse. Alma is atop this list.

According to the in-depth Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which operates Caltrain, certified Thursday morning, the problems at the Alma intersections cannot be eased through strategies such as lane reconfigurations and new traffic signals. Because the train corridor is bounded by Alma to the east side and homes and businesses to the west, it cannot be

widened. Thus, traffic problems at its intersections with Charleston Road, Meadow Drive and Churchill Avenue will remain “significant and unavoidable,” according to the EIR. The report states that “no feasible mitigations exist” to change this; thus, none are proposed.

Palo Alto’s three intersections are among 17 systemwide that could not be improved, leaving each with a “significant” level of delay. (There are 89 intersections along the entire corridor, from

Gilroy to San Francisco.)

Another Palo Alto intersection, at Palo Alto Avenue near Sand Hill Road, would also have traffic problems, though Caltrain expects to reduce the delays by widening Sand Hill and adding a traffic lane that would allow southbound cars to turn on red.

Palo Alto, which has in the past supported the $1.5-billion electrification project, raised concerns about the plan in a letter to Cal(continued on page 13)

YOUTH

Gunn administrators call attention to teens’ sleep School launches partnership with Stanford sleep experts

by Elena wo Stanford University sleep experts gave a talk at Gunn High School this week, kicking off a new partnership between the high school and Stanford aimed at educating students and parents on the intimately interwoven topics of sleep and student wellness.

William Dement and Rafael Pelayo, both psychiatry and behavioral science professors at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, talked to 200 sophomores and seniors Wednesday about the importance of establishing a healthy sleep rhythm and the increasing number of distractions competing for students’ time, primarily homework and social media. A survey was also administered during the assembly, asking students questions like, “Have you ever seen a classmate fall asleep in class?” (76 percent have) and “Have you ever skipped sleep to do your homework?” (76 percent have).

The assembly was the first in what Gunn administrators hope will be an ongoing series of educational efforts surrounding sleep, social-emotional well-being and general wellness.

“Part of that is the idea of our school embracing the idea that yes, our primary goal is academic learning, but there are a lot of other kinds of learning — how to take care of your body, how to take care of your mind,” Gunn Principal Denise Herrmann told the Weekly Thursday. “All of those things are equally important.”

Vice Principal Tom Jacoubowsky reached out to De-

T Veronica Weber

Newly elected Mayor Karen Holman and Vice Mayor Greg Schmid listen to former Mayor Nancy Shepherd talk about her time on the council after a resolution of appreciation in her honor was passed by the new council on Jan. 5.

CITY COUNCIL

Holman, Schmid to lead Palo Alto council Two council members, long in the minority, elected mayor and vice mayor

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ignaling a philosophical and political shift in City Hall, Palo Alto’s new City Council on Monday night elected Karen Holman and Greg Schmid as its mayor and vice mayor for 2015.

With a crowd of more than 200 people filling up every bench, folding chair and standing-room spot in the newly refurbished Council Chambers, the council swore in five members, bid farewell to three and handed over the leadership positions to two people long accustomed to casting minority votes.

Both Holman and Schmid have distinguished themselves in recent years by their skeptical

by Gennady Sheyner and at times adversarial positions toward new developments and by slow-growth philosophies that made them popular with the city’s “residentialists.”

By unanimously electing Holman as mayor, the council broke with a long-held tradition of having the prior year’s vice mayor assume the mayor’s chair. In this case, it was outgoing Vice Mayor Liz Kniss who nominated Holman, who was sworn in earlier in the meeting to her second council term after emerging as the leading votegetter in the November 2014 election.

Kniss observed that Holman would be only the 13th female

mayor in the city’s history and said she believes Holman can be “a very effective next woman mayor.” Before nominating Holman, Kniss noted that the city has just gone through “a really difficult election,” a time when “our community became divided” and when “neighbors actually stopped chatting with each other and lots of conversations around the community became uncomfortable and awkward.”

The city, she said, now has the “right person” to bring the community together. Councilman Pat Burt, who has often voted along with Holman on land-use (continued on page 16)

Kadvany ment and Pelayo just before winter break in December to plan the assembly. Dement, who also serves as division chief of the Stanford University Division of Sleep and is founding president of the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA), has for decades studied the neurochemistry of sleep and the impact of sleep deprivation, according to his university biography. In 2006, Dement spearheaded a sleep-study and awareness campaign at Menlo-Atherton High School that soon won recognition from the California School Boards Association and the National Sleep Foundation’s Healthy Sleep Community Awards.

Pelayo has published research on treatment for sleep disorders and, particularly, pediatric sleep pharmacology.

Gunn sophomore Martha Cabot said the assembly wasn’t as helpful to her and her friends as they would have hoped.

“They continued to point out that us kids need to know that we should sleep more and do less homework,” she said. “It was kind of surprising to us because we know well enough that we should sleep more.”

Some students were actually asleep or on their phones during the assembly, she said. To her and her friends, the issue circles back to the need for a fix for students’ heavy homework loads.

Jacoubowsky and Herrmann said the new sleep partnership is just one of several efforts to improve student wellness, including a hard look at Gunn’s homework (continued on page 12)

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Upfront

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Before, we just went to some guy’s garage that had power tools.

— Emily Zhang, a Palo Alto High School junior, on working at the MakeX lab, a “maker’s” space for teens. See story on page 10.

Around Town

LIFE IS NO FAIRY TALE ... A burglar who found a bed in a Palo Alto residence “just right” for sleeping in became the target of an all-out nighttime search by Palo Alto police on Dec. 30. The “Goldilocks” intruder was discovered asleep by a house-sitter, police agent Marianna Villaescusa said. The house-sitter and the man had a five-minute conversation before the intruder fled and the house-sitter called police. Officers found a box with items from the residence they think the sleeping man — a white male in his 20s with a goatee — had planned to steal. The man wore bluish-green sweatpants and possibly a white T-shirt.

In a separate yet suspiciously coincidental incident, residents at a home in the 600 block of Everett Avenue — two blocks from the other house — called police at 9 a.m. Dec. 31 regarding a suspicious circumstance: a man sleeping in their child’s playhouse. Police arrested Jason Heinz, 26, of San Pablo and booked him for being under the influence of a controlled substance and for prowling.

HONORING COMMUNITY MEMBERS ... The 6th annual reception by the Palo Alto Office for Emergency Services , honoring community members who have helped the city and residents prepare for a disaster, will take place at Palo Alto City Hall on Jan. 15.

Four individuals and two Stanford agencies will be presented with awards, and a panel will discuss living in the age of pandemics.

The event will recognize: Bonnie Berg, an Old Palo Alto resident, public health nurse and a founding member of the city’s Medical Reserve Corps; Hamilton Hitchings, a Duveneck/St. Francis resident and block preparedness coordinator who developed a document called “Family Prep in 30 minutes”; Cliff Nakayama, a resident of Altaire and neighbor preparedness coordinator for the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center and Kehilla High School; Daniel Melick, a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) instructor and member of its training exercise and design team; Stanford Emergency Medical Service; and Stanford Health Care Office of Emergency Management. The panel discussion will feature Palo Alto Medical Foundation physician Enoch Choi, Kaiser Santa Clara physician Stephen Fisk and George Han, Santa Clara County deputy

health officer. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at 250 Hamilton Ave. in the Council Chambers.

OH, THE PRESSURE! ... Peer pressure is alive and well — and powerful, even if it’s only in teens’ heads. That’s one of the findings of a new study by academics at three universities, including Geoffrey Cohen, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The two-and-ahalf year study of 235 students at a suburban, middle-income high school asked teens for their perceptions of their peers’ behaviors, from smoking to study habits, as well as their own actual behaviors. The students were categorized into five groups: brainiacs, burnouts, jocks, popular kids and those who didn’t fit into any one crowd. As it turns out, the students generally exaggerated what they thought others were doing. The jocks and popular teens, for example, reported levels of sexual and deviant behaviors that were not significantly different from either the burnout or brainy groups, according to the study.

The brainiacs, meanwhile, studied on average only about half the amount of time that their peers thought they did. And the burnouts were wrongly presumed to shoplift and damage property more frequently and study less than what they reported in reality.

Most striking, the researchers found that youth were more apt to adopt behaviors they thought the popular kids were doing — even if their assumptions were wrong.

“The lesson of this research,” Cohen told the Stanford Report, “is that people may conform to norms and identities that are in their head rather than in reality — both for good and, too often, for ill.”

LEWIS’ LEGACY ... Four years after Free At Last co-founder and community leader David Lewis was killed, the East Palo Alto-based organization (which provides substance abuse treatment, intervention, education and prevention services) has launched the David Lewis Award to honor Lewis’ memory. The award ceremony will take place during the organization’s 21stanniversary celebration on Jan. 16, from 1 to 7 p.m. at Free At Last Community Recovery and Rehabilitation Services (1796 Bay Road). Q

Upfront TRANSPORTATION

Palo Alto officials protest rapid-bus plan Severe traffic delays, loss of hundreds of parking spaces among city’s concerns

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proposal by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to establish dedicated bus lanes and remove more than 250 parking spaces on El Camino Real in Palo Alto is meeting vigorous resistance from city officials, who are questioning the assumptions behind the ambitious plan known as Bus Rapid Transit and calling for the agency to consider alternatives.

VTA is preparing to certify the draft environmental analysis for the project, which aims to increase ridership and make bus trips speedier.

Many details of the plan, which has been in the works for more than five years, remain undecided, as the agency is still evaluating which parts of El Camino should have dedicated bus lanes (and, by extension, fewer car lanes) and which should have a “mixedflow” configuration in which buses share lanes with cars but pause at bulb-outs and new stations.

The Palo Alto City Council is set to consider Monday the latest iteration and sign off on a letter opposing the proposal to dedicate two of El Camino’s six lanes to buses only.

In recent years, the transit agen-

cy has shifted gears in considering what Bus Rapid Transit would look like in Palo Alto. In June 2011, VTA assured local officials that the agency was unlikely to cut car lanes on El Camino in Palo Alto.

Steve Fisher, a transportation planner at the VTA, told the council at the time that in Palo Alto, the agency is “not looking too hard at dedicated lanes.”

“We don’t find the level of travel-time savings compelling enough in Palo Alto because you’re getting to the end of the line,” Fisher said.

But in the last few months, plans for dedicated bus lanes in Palo Alto have resurfaced. The new Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) includes dedicated lanes as a design option, a fact that has both puzzled and frustrated city officials. It doesn’t help that the DEIR makes it clear that this alternative would affect traffic at local intersections to a greater extent than any of the other options in the plan.

In November, VTA officials returned to Palo Alto and made a case for dedicated lanes. John Ristow, director for planning and program development at the VTA, said that such lanes would

greatly increase bus ridership in Palo Alto. Currently, the agency averages 2,516 weekday boardings, a number that is expected to go up to 2,851 in 2018 even if the bus plan doesn’t launch. With a mixed-flow design, the number would rise to 2,987; with dedicated bus lanes, boardings would total 4,215.

“We really want to improve the transit option for the corridor because of the investments the city is putting in, as well as private developers,” Ristow said, alluding to the large number of transitoriented projects that are either planned for or under construction along El Camino.

In Palo Alto, numerous highprofile developments along the corridor won council approval in recent years. These include College Terrace Centre at 2180 El Camino Real, which will include a new grocery store operated by Miki Werness and the offices of Yelp. A few blocks south, a blocklong development was approved around Equinox Gym, at 3159 El Camino. The project will include a restaurant, office space and apartments. The council is also set to consider in the coming months the latest proposal for a four-

Rendering courtesy City of Palo Alto

by Gennady Sheyner

A rendering of the two street configurations proposed by VTA: a “dedicated-lane” proposal versus a “mixed-flow curb lane,” which is the preferred option in Palo Alto. story building at 2755 El Camino Real, on one corner of the chronically congested intersection of El Camino and Page Mill Road.

At the November discussion of the bus project, Palo Alto Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez predicted that traffic “will divert from El Camino to get to parallel streets” and said the proposal “seems really bad for Palo Alto.”

Even though the corridor is already expected to see more and more traffic jams in the coming years, the VTA’s environmental study suggests that things would get much worse on both El Camino and Alma Street, which runs parallel to El Camino, if the number of car lanes on El Camino is reduced by two.

Without bus-only lanes, cars at El Camino and Page Mill would wait 94 seconds during the morning commute and 117 seconds in the evening commute in 2040.

With dedicated lanes, these waits go up by 15 seconds and 27 seconds, respectively.

At Alma and Loma Verde Avenue, the delay after implementation of the bus lanes is expected to be nearly 16 minutes during the morning peak hours in 2040.

Without the project, the delay would be more than 11 minutes, according to the VTA’s traffic analysis.

In fact, the DEIR notes that traffic problems would remain “significant and unavoidable” at (continued on page 14)

EDUCATION

Private, alternative K-8 school opening in Palo Alto this fall AltSchool draws on technology, flexibility, personalization

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ltSchool, a new private K-8 school set to launch this fall in downtown Palo Alto, prides itself on actively operating on the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional modes of learning.

As explained by AltSchool founder and former Google executive Max Ventilla to a crowd of about 50 parents at an information session at Cubberley Community Center Monday evening, each AltSchool student learns via a “playlist,” or a personalized-learning plan that can be adapted or altered whenever a student has the need. AltSchool classrooms are small, mixed-grade and flexible, so students move on to the higher grade whenever it makes sense for them, whether that’s in December or March. An AltSchool day is based on students following their personalized “playlist,” which could involve small group work, reading, a field trip or working on a long-term project in the morning and afternoon. Bookending each day are extracurriculars like

foreign language, yoga, coding, guitar or robotics.

Work is done in class, and homework is what’s left over, or assignments specifically designed to be done at home. There’s a strong emphasis on real-world learning, with content drawing on the Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards and state standards for social-emotional learning.

The overarching vision of AltSchool is to leverage the transformational power of technology to redefine children’s educational experiences, explained Ventilla, who’s armed with years of highlevel technology and personalization work experience.

Ventilla worked at Google on and off for a decade, first in business operations and strategy and later as a founding member of the company’ social network, Google+, and head of personalization. In between those positions, he co-founded Aardvark, a social search engine that Google eventually bought in 2010.

He left Google in 2013 to found the first AltSchool in San Francisco after being discouraged by the elementary school options for his two young children — “disturbed” that they didn’t offer the level of agency or innovation that he hoped 21st-century schools would.

“We, technologists within the company, have spent our adult lives building things that get better and better the more people use them,” he said. “And here you have this thing that is so essential, not just to our families but to society — namely, elementary education and middle school education — and we have this 19th-century dynamic where it’s constrained.

The more kids go, the worse the experience gets.

“We said, ‘We need to operate with very different priorities,’” he said of the AltSchool founders. “It needs to be different, the central pillars that we build our school upon, than what we’ve seen dictate how schools operate.”

One of those pillars is being

Courtesy AltSchool

by Elena Kadvany

AltSchool founder and CEO Max Ventilla is a parent of two young children and a former Google executive hoping to leverage technology to reinvent education. small in the ways a school should be small and being big in the ways a school should be big, Ventilla said. AltSchool is small in that it adapts to each student on a byneed basis, and large in that each school is part of a growing network of “micro-schools” whose resources any student or family can — and is encouraged to — take advantage of. This might be a teacher whose specialty is in a particular extracurricular subject or the support staff AltSchool offers (20 engineers and counting, plus numerous administrative roles), Ventilla said. Thinking big also touches on a concept more familiar in the world of technology than education: The more people who use a service or product, the

more it will improve.

“I would guess that the vast majority of people in this room would rather have a social network or search engine or smartphone that more people got to experience, rather than fewer.”

The AltSchool network began with just 10 students and one location in San Francisco. It’s expanded to four San Francisco microschools that serve more than 150 students. Ventilla said they’ll soon double the number of schools in San Francisco, with at least one more on its way this fall. New schools in Brooklyn and Palo Alto will also come online this fall.

The schools function as cohe(continued on page 15)

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBERS JANUARY 12, 2015 6:00 PM STUDY SESSION 7 YLZLU[H[PVU MYVT *HS[YHPU :[HŃœ VU [OL 7LUPUZ\SH *VYYPKVY ,SLJ[YPĂ„JH[PVU Project Final Environmental Impact Report SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY 2. Presentation Regarding the Community Services Department’s Summer Programs 3. Adoption of a Resolution Honoring Greg Betts on his Retirement CONSENT CALENDAR 4. Approval and Authorization for the City Manager to Execute an Electric Fund Construction Contract with Pacheco Line Builders, Inc. for a Not to Exceed Amount of $3,000,000 for Three Years, $1,000,000 per year, for Electric Construction Services, Including Maintenance and Minor System Improvement Work on the City’s Overhead Electric Distribution System 5. Approval of a Contract With Spencon Contractor In the Amount of $1,458,610.30 For The FY 2015 Sidewalk, Curb and Gutter Repairs Project 6. Approval of Contract No. C15156020 With CH2M HILL in the Total Amount Not to Exceed $2,100,000 to Provide Design & Environmental Consulting Services for Sludge Dewatering and Load Out Facility at Regional Water Quality Control Plant – Capital Improvement Program Project WQ-14001 7. Approval of a Contract with Innovative Interfaces Incorporated For Sierra, a Hosted Integrated Library System For the Palo Alto City Library For a First Year Cost Not to Exceed $188,814, and Full Contract to Last Not More Than Seven Years (2015-2022) For a Total Amount Not to Exceed $950,301 (CIP Project TE-11001) 8. Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance; Request for Authorization to Increase the existing Legal Services Agreement with Goldfarb & Lipman 9. Approval of a Short Form Agreement for Revenue Contracts between the City of Palo Alto and the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the MidPeninsula, Inc. Concerning The Use of the Gymnasium Facilities and Associated Fees for the Facility Use at the Cubberley Community Center for Jointly Supported Cardiac Therapy Programs 10. Review and Acceptance of Annual Status Report on Development Impact Fees for Fiscal Year 2014 11. Adoption of an Ordinance Governing Public Art for Municipal Projects ACTION ITEMS 12. Council Action on Preliminary Maters Regarding the Application to Close the Buena Vista Mobilhome Park: 1) Determination of the Owner’s Request to Dismiss the Residents Association’s Appeal of the Hearing OfĂ„JLY +LJPZPVU" (KVW[PVU VM 7YVJLK\YLZ [V .V]LYU [OL (WWLHS HUK DireAppeal 13. Authorization for the Mayor to sign a letter commenting on the Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment (Draft EIR) for the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Bus Rapid Transit STATE/FEDERAL LEGISLATION UPDATE/ACTION 14. Utilities Advisory Commission Recommendation that the City Council Adopt a Resolution Approving the Amended City of Palo Alto Utilities Legislative Policy Guidelines 15. Review and Approval of the Draft Legislative Program Manual and Draft Semi-Annual Legislative Strategic Initiatives CLOSED SESSION 16. CONFERENCE WITH CITY ATTORNEY -- EXISTING LITIGATION Sipple

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oothill College is in the running to become one of the first California community colleges to offer a four-year bachelor’s degree as the result of a bill that took effect Jan. 1.

The bill, which Governor Jerry Brown signed into law in September, allows up to 15 community colleges to offer one baccalaureate degree in select vocational fields, as long as they meet a local workforce need and don’t compete with or duplicate any programs already offered at University of California (UC) or California State University (CSU) campuses.

In today’s world of increasingly expensive college degrees the bill aims to give more Californians access to higher education, and at a more affordable price.

Thirty-six community-college districts, half of the entire state system, submitted applications in December for a range of careerfocused degree programs, from Foothill’s dental hygiene to public safety, respiratory therapy, engineering technology and emergency services. Foothill chose dental hygiene after analyzing its own program and broader industry trends, said Andrea Hanstein, Foothill director of marketing and public relations.

Currently, only three private universities in California offer a four-year dental-hygiene degree: the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Loma Linda University and the University of Southern California. Annual tuition at those schools ranges from $40,000 to $48,000, Hanstein said. Foothill’s program would cost approximately $10,500 per year. “Community colleges were founded on the premise that everyone deserves an opportunity for education,� Hanstein said. “To be able to have a program where we can increase the number of seats because we would be able to increase the number of students enrolled and then get them out there and employed — that’s our mission in a nutshell.�

Hanstein added that although the technical requirement to become a dental hygienist is a twoyear degree, the American Dental Association (which endorsed Foothill’s application) has indicated it’s moving toward having a bachelor’s degree as the minimum entry-level requirement.

Foothill’s dental-hygiene program is also extremely popular, with an average of about 100 students applying each year for the 24 spots available, Dental Hygiene Program Director Phyllis Spragge said.

Foothill’s students also often

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The Foothill-De Anza Community College District is applying for a pilot program to offer a four-year dental-hygiene degree. graduate with an excess of units — much more than required for the associate’s degree they earn, Spragge said. “My students have to take the same board exams as students who graduate from the four-year dentalhygiene programs,� she said, “so the scope of knowledge has to be equivalent, but the degree is not.�

Only one other state community-college district applied for a dental-hygiene degree (State Center Community College District in Fresno), but Hanstein said Foothill was told that both could be selected since the two schools are located in different markets.

Spragge also worked with the four other Bay Area community colleges that currently offer a two-year dental-hygiene degree so Foothill would be the only one in the region applying for the expanded program. These four schools — Santa Rosa Junior College, Diablo Valley College, Chabot College and Cabrillo College — are also interested in aligning their curriculum with Foothill’s if it is selected as a pilot campus. “Even though we only take 24 students a year, we’re looking at this bachelor-degree program to be larger in number and in scope,�

Spragge said.

Members of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office staff, a member of the business and workforce community, representatives from CSU, UC and community-college administrators, faculty and staff from districts that did not apply to host a program are reviewing the applications and will make a recommendation to the system’s board of governors before its Jan. 20 meeting.

The board is expected to announce the 15 pilot colleges on Jan. 21. Considerations for selecting a district included geographic distribution of the pilot programs, diversity of pilot programs, ability of the district to establish a rigorous program and existence of an unaddressed local or statewide workforce need, according to a

press release from the Chancellor’s Office. Selected programs will also be accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.

The legislation sunsets after the 2022-23 school year, after which the legislature and governor may renew it pending two reviews of the pilot program, one in 2018 and another in 2022, according to the Chancellor’s Office.

Selected districts can start their programs as soon as this fall and must offer the degree by the 201718 academic year. Hanstein said that Foothill’s program, if selected, would likely begin in the fall of 2016. Though Foothill applied as the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the degree would only be offered at Foothill’s Los Altos Hills campus. Foothill also requested as part of its application that graduates of its two-year dental-hygiene program would be allowed to return to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree.

California is joining the 21 states that already allow their community colleges to offer fouryear degrees. The state’s Chancellor’s Office said in the November press release that “Further impetus for the measure comes from studies which show that California needs to produce 1 million more baccalaureate degree earners by 2025 to remain economically competitive in the coming decades. Community colleges are an efficient and economical way to help meet those needs due to their numerous locations throughout the state and modest tuition.�

Locally, Spragge called the potential new offering for dentalhygiene students “an issue of fairness.� “It’s a degree that matches the level of preparation and work that they’ve done,� she said.

Though there are bachelor’sdegree completion programs that students who graduate with an associate degree can pursue, that adds on further costs, both in time and money, she noted. Q

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After brawl, Palo Alto resident still in critical condition One punch, too many drinks, radically changes three young men’s lives

by Sue Dremann

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e is young, athletic — and a tennis instructor at Kim Grant Tennis Academy.

His wife of two years said he is a peaceful person who only went out once every few weeks, according to a police report. But now the man is on life support at Stanford Hospital three weeks after a Dec. 21 brawl outside a downtown Palo Alto bar.

The man, whose name the Weekly is withholding, was out for a good time with a friend at The Patio bar on Emerson Street when their lives intersected with four other young men’s outside the establishment. An altercation ensued. Then a single punch to the head — so loud it was heard from 75 feet away, according to police who stood nearby — knocked him to the ground. When the officers ran to him, he was flat on the pavement, his eyes unresponsive.

He hasn’t woken up. “I was just drunk,� the alleged assailant, Neil Brian Rotroff, also known as Neil Brian Alamban, told police.

Now Rotroff, a 28-year-old father who lives with his mother and fiance in Cupertino, faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for punching the victim.

The charge could change if the injuries prove fatal, police said.

Akshay Vijay Mastakar, 21, of Sunnyvale, faces charges of assault on a peace officer with a deadly weapon for allegedly nearly striking two officers with his vehicle as he, Rotroff and two friends fled the scene. “I was hella scared,� Rotroff told police, after he saw the victim lying unconscious. He just wanted to go back to his kids, he said.

A police report reveals the details of the incident. Too much alcohol, an argument — no one knows about what — and perhaps young male pride led to the events that have changed the lives of the three young men.

Rotroff, Mastakar and two other friends had started their evening at a Cupertino billiard hall or bowling alley — described alternately in police reports — on Dec.

20 to celebrate the recent return of one of the men from serving in the U.S. Army, they told police.

They each had two or three beers, with Mastakar, the driver, having one. At about midnight, they went to The Patio and had a few more strong drinks.

The victim and a friend, both Belarus immigrants, were also there drinking, according to police reports.

As the bar neared closing time one of the men from Rotroff’s group, a Ukrainian immigrant, asked to bum a cigarette from the pair. The initial contact was amicable and conducted in Russian, according to the report. But the victim apparently got into an argument with three men from the group.

No one recalls or will say what the argument was about. According to Rotroff and his friends, the man allegedly slapped one of Rotroff’s friends on the head. Rotroff and the man had heated words.

Palo Alto police who were nearby intervened, according to the report. The friends on both sides

kept the two apart. Separately, they told police they were going to go home.

As Rotroff and his friends crossed Emerson to leave in Mastakar’s white Honda, the pair walked south toward the parking lot near the Aquarius Theater.

The two were allegedly hollering insults toward Rotroff and his friends, so the four men walked back to confront them.

At that point “the fight is inevitable,� Mastakar told police.

Rotroff said they probably returned to “earn back our pride or something.�

Versions of what happened next vary. As the exchange became more heated, one of Rotroff’s friends told police he tried to diffuse the situation. He said he pushed the victim’s friend away by the shoulder because he was allegedly making things worse.

But the victim’s friend told police that he was struck, which Mastakar confirmed in his statement to the police. Rotroff, who was probably bumped during this altercation, fell to the ground, Mastakar said.

When Rotroff got knocked down, Mastakar said he knew the confrontation was going to escalate. “Neil is not going to just let that go,� he told police.

Rotroff, who is 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, stood up and handed his cigarette to a friend. The victim, who is tall and lanky, was squaring up with him

and allegedly punching him, according to the police report.

The blows did not hurt, Rotroff said, but he felt he needed to act in self defense. He delivered a blow that a witness described as a “right cross� to the victim’s head, sending the man to the pavement.

The man’s family has not returned requests for comment, but his employer, Kim Grant, described him as “an amazing person and coach, and he touched a lot of lives.� “(He) is the warmest, most sincere person. He brings sunshine into every life he touches. (He) loves life, tennis, people and is such a positive person! We all admire his amazing spirit, joyful energy and generous heart! Even though I am his mentor, he has taught me much through his wonderful spirit,� she wrote in an email.

Rotroff told police he is sorry for his actions. He admitted that he has been in some other fights, even being punched unconscious, according to the police report. But he said he had never knocked anyone else out before.

He said he understands that he should have been a bigger man, but he felt he was being bullied.

He also was upset that the pair were insulting his friend who just got back from the Army. If anything, he told police, they should be respecting him. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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A space where creativity reigns Teens, city staff create a place for imagining, tinkering, building

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n a cluttered classroom at Cubberley Community Center last Friday afternoon, the sound of smooth jazz was playing in the background as a group of high school students labored over various projects. One watched a 3-D printer start to slowly print mini human-shaped figures for a foosball table he’s making from scratch. Across the room, two teens chatted back and forth before carefully measuring plywood that later that day would become a tall, sturdy shelf. Without warning, the whirring collision of a power-saw meeting wood drowned out everything.

Welcome to MakeX, a maker’s space where Palo Alto teens create and make things to their heart’s content in a place entirely theirs.

MakeX is student-run, with a group of Palo Alto students who designed the space from scratch now supervising it, managing the budget, planning publicity campaigns and continually thinking about how it can best serve Palo Alto youth.

The Cubberley space isn’t stateof-the-art or expansive, but the students clearly like it that way.

They have everything they need, from a laser cutter and two computers equipped with high-level engineering software to a sagging couch where they sit to watch movies or play video games.

MakeX, which is funded by the Palo Alto library system, was initially conceived as a mobile maker’s space that would set up shop in one location for several months, then move somewhere else. It was born as a collaboration between the library and the Palo Alto Art Center, after Art Center Director Karen Kienzle brought to Library Director Monique leConge the idea of applying for a learning grant that could help them better serve Palo Alto teenagers. That grant fell through, but they secured a different one. With $67,500 from the California State Library and further donations, they ended up with close to $100,000, allowing them to work with a group of high school students to build their ideal maker’s space.

Initial interviews with Palo Alto students indicated the need for a space that they could truly take ownership of, Kienzle said.

“Teens have always been an important audience for us and one we felt like we weren’t serving as well as we could,” she said.

“Some of the things we learned from teens was the importance (of) having a third place — not home, not work (or in their case, not school) — a place of their own. We heard that they wanted to be treated like adults and they wanted their voices to be heard.”

Twenty-two local students —

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Jeremy Trilling, center, and Kai Gallagher build a wooden shelf at the MakeX studio at Cubberley Community Center on Jan. 2. some from Palo Alto High and Gunn High, others from Castilleja School, The Nueva School in Hillsborough and elsewhere — served as consultants for the maker’s space (some volunteered and some were even paid). They visited other maker’s spaces in the Bay Area, including Castilleja’s Bourn Idea Lab, Stanford University’s Fab Lab and the Exploratorium in San Francisco. They toured Palo Alto design firm Ideo’s offices and talked with people at Stanford’s famed d.school to learn about design thinking. They then sketched out their maker’s space from top to bottom with precise purpose, from the design of the chairs and tables to the budget of $13,000 for equipment.

“One of the outcomes we were really hoping (for) is that they could understand how local government works,” leConge said.

“As people who work in local government, from the outside you don’t necessarily realize how long it can take to purchase something or why we have to follow this restriction or policy.”

MakeX first launched in mobile form in the Palo Alto Art Center in August 2013. It later moved to

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the lobby of City Hall before settling in a more permanent space at Cubberley. It’s now open twice a week for two- to three-hour slots during which anyone, students of any age or simply interested adults, is welcome to drop in and tinker.

“We thought that instead of giving people a pretty superficial knowledge of how to build and how to design and then move away from them and have MakeX be harder to access, we wanted to find a more permanent space so we could develop a more permanent culture,” said James Wang, Paly junior and one of the original 22 students.

Wang said what makes MakeX unique, too, is that it’s a place without constraints. There are no adults looking over their shoulders (parents, don’t worry: Everyone goes through safety training before operating the power tools) and no class requirements or expectations on what work happens there.

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Emily Zhang, left, and Annie Carilli, students at Palo Alto High School, work on building a ping-pong launching machine that is part of a competition in their Science Olympiad team at the MakeX studio.

could just flesh out your ideas,” Wang said.

On a recent afternoon, students built a tall shelf at the same time as another teen put together a mini wooden fish toy (with felt spines so it actually moves). Two girls worked on an engineering project for a school club. Many Paly students use MakeX as a much-needed resource to develop their projects for SciOly, a student club focused on preparing for high-level science competitions like the Science Olympiad.

“This is our resource,” said Paly junior and SciOly club member Emily Zhang, who was at MakeX last week with a female classmate testing a contraption they built to launch a ping-pong ball. “Before, we just went to some guy’s garage that had power tools.”

Wang said the space is also about making the maker movement, which espouses a do-ityourself, engineering-oriented attitude, more accessible to young people in Palo Alto.

“The maker movement is kind of intimidating and kind of exclusive to older people right now,” Wang said. “We’re trying to bring it to a younger audience.”

Though right now MakeX is very much this group of students’ space, leConge and Kienzle are thinking about how the program will be sustained as these students move on and, perhaps, what modifications or evolution might occur.

LeConge said library staff is looking at ways to extend MakeX’s impact into local library branches, such as organizing programming around one piece of equipment, like the 3-D printer.

Regardless, Kienzle said the experience of a student-created project like this was unique, for both the city and the students.

“It was a really empowering process,” she said. “When you empower people to do great things, they always step up and they make things happen.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Palo Alto gets new center for domestic violence services

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domestic-violence services center for women in affluent communities is now headquartered in Palo Alto.

Women/SV, formerly called the Women-of-Means Escape Network, moved on Jan. 6 from Los Altos to the offices of Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley, which is located at 375 Cambridge Ave. Palo Alto police wrote 96 total domestic-violence reports in 2014.

Misdemeanor arrests were made in 32 of those cases, and there were 16 felony arrests. In the remainder of the cases, no arrests were made and they were informational reports, Lt. Zach Perron said.

The program fills a gap in services for victims of domestic violence in northern Santa Clara County, founder and Executive Director Ruth Patrick said.

Until now, Women/SV has been in incubation for three years with support from the Los Altos Community Foundation. At Family & Children Services, Patrick will continue offering Women/SV programs, which include helping women find shelter, counseling and legal representation, she said.

The newly housed services will also offer education about the problem of domestic violence to attorneys, the courts, social workers, medical professionals

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With funding, Family & Children Services wants to add individual counseling and case-management for victims, according to Maryanne McGlothlin, Family & Children Services director of grants and communications.

Patrick, who has a state certification in domestic-violence education, was inspired to launch the program after she was struck by the prevalence of domestic violence in the affluent communities. She was teaching at Stanford University and in schools in Santa Clara County and raising awareness of eating disorders when she noticed some of her students were having a hard time in class. She soon learned the students lived in homes where there was domestic violence and saw their mothers being hit or verbally abused.

“A lot of them were thinking about the trauma and chaos at home,” she said. “Domestic violence doesn’t just happen on the wrong side of the tracks.”

Patrick started focusing on services for women in affluent communities to address their particular needs.

“The more money and power and public influence you have, the more weapons you have to use as tools for abuse,” she said.

Since October 2011, Women/

SV has helped more than 250 victims, many whose children were also affected, she said.

Like for all domestic-violence victims, abuse can include beatings, threats and verbal and emotional attacks. But the affluent Silicon Valley abuser poses additional threats.

“This is the epicenter of technological abuse. They can use technology to punish and to blackmail victims,” she said.

Silicon Valley abusers harass the victims day and night; they track their partners’ whereabouts through cell-phone activity, making themselves seem omniscient.

They’ll crash the victim’s website or send fraudulent messages to her message board; they hack emails, pose as friends or family of the victim and send messages to alienate the victim from people who support her.

And when the victim snaps after being harassed to exhaustion, abusers will record that eruption on video or audio. The abusers make themselves look like the abused, Patrick said.

Abusers use the recordings as blackmail or to win a childcustody battle. Faced with such “evidence,” the victim may find herself arrested or the subject of a restraining order, she said.

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Ruth Patrick, founder of Women/SV, sets up her new office at the Family & Children Services center in Palo Alto in early January.

Patrick works with women and children who are dealing with different types of domestic abuse. tionship often continues through divorce and court proceedings.

“The average, untrained eye won’t see the body language, the back and forth between the abuser and the victim in court. It’s imperative for judges to see that,” Patrick said.

So she offers trainings to attorneys and the courts to look for signs of abuse — skills that are not necessarily taught in law or medical schools, she said.

Women/SV joins a handful of other domestic violence programs in Santa Clara County, though the others are headquartered in the south. The YMCA Domestic Violence Support Network, Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence and Asian Americans for Community Involvement’s Asian Women’s Home are located in San Jose. Just one organization, Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA), serves all of San

Mateo County, she said.

Patrick said she will appreciate the infrastructure of a phone and office in a dedicated health and human services facility and the staffing it can provide.

Diana Neiman, president and CEO of Family & Children Services, said the organization has worked closely with Patrick and Women/SV in the past on domestic-violence prevention and advocacy. Up until now, the 48-yearold services agency has only been able to offer limited victim support when batterers enrolled in the agency’s counseling programs as directed by the courts.

“We are delighted to welcome Women/SV as part of our organization,” Neiman said.

Patrick will give a presentation, “Loving Dr. Jekyll, Leaving Mr. Hyde,” on Feb. 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Deborah’s Palm, 555 Lytton Ave. The event is free. Q

PUBLIC WORKS

Council may OK funds for new waste facility Palo Alto seeks to retire polluting incinerators in the Baylands

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alo Alto has a rich history of discord and disagreement when it comes to disposing of the city’s organic waste, but if there is one project that brings all the sides in the debate together it’s the city’s plan to retire the incinerators that have been burning sludge in the Baylands for more than 40 years.

On Monday night, the City Council is expected to approve a $2.3 million contract with a firm that would design the city’s new sludge-dewatering and haul-out facility. Once in place, the facility would allow the city to send its dried-out sewage sludge to another waste plant that would either compost it or process it into an agricultural product, according to a staff report.

The $12 million dewatering plant would allow the city to retire its incinerators, which are notorious for emitting high levels of greenhouse gases and producing hazardous ash that the city must export every week to Kettleman City.

Eventually, the city plans to also build an anaerobic digester near the sewage plant that would convert sludge into energy. Food waste would later be added to the materials processed at the new plant.

Palo Alto has also been exploring options for composting, though that effort became less urgent last October, when the city received several proposals from private companies and determined that its current prac-

tice of exporting local yard-trimmings would be much cheaper.

The design process for the dewatering and haul-out facility is scheduled to take about 14 months and be completed by around March 2016, according to a new Public Works report.

Construction is expected to take about three years and be completed in July 2019, at which time the incinerators would be retired.

Palo Alto is currently one of only two agencies in the state that uses incinerators (Central Contra Costa Sanitary District is the only other one). The City Council in May wholeheartedly supported the retirement of the incinerators.

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The incinerator building at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant where solid waste is burned down to ashes. ... paving the way for the future anaerobic digester system that will produce local, renewable energy that can run the RWQCP (Regional Water Quality Control Plant).”

The new sewage-treatment equipment will include three large tanks known as gravity thickeners with sludge pumps; a scum concentrator (a tank with heating equipment and a pump); three 2-meter-wide belt-filter presses that will dewater the

incoming sludge; and a conveyance system that will bring the dewatered sludge cake into three elevated storage bins. According to the preliminary design report for the new facility, each of these bins would have a “discharger” allowing the dewatered sludge to be removed from the bins and conveyed by a rubber chute into hauling trucks. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

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load and class scheduling, the construction of a comprehensive wellness center and ongoing work with Challenge Success, a nonprofit research organization founded at Stanford’s School of Education that works with schools and families to improve student health.

Herrmann said Gunn is expanding this year the use of a timemanagement tool previously used only for students considering taking multiple Advanced Placement (AP) classes. When students select their classes, they’ll be asked to calculate how many hours they would be spending in school and on homework versus sports, extracurriculars, sleep and other activities.

“At the end it will say, ‘Have you exceeded an average of a 24-hour day?’ We’re trying to find tools to help them,” Herrmann said.

In 2011, Gunn shifted its morning start time from 7:55 to 8:25 a.m., though 15 percent of students are currently enrolled in an early zero-period course, Jacoubowsky said.

Jacoubowsky hopes Gunn’s partnership with the two sleep experts will be a sustained, ongoing and comprehensive effort that goes beyond one-time assemblies, though a similar assembly for freshmen and juniors is in the works for this year. An eventual

goal is to incorporate sleep education into Titan 101, Gunn’s freshman transition program.

“This is ongoing because every year, we get a new group of kids,” Jacoubowsky said. “Every year, we get new parents coming in. It ties in again with wellness — (making sure students are) not only academically strong, but emotionally healthy, and what role the school can play in it.”

Jacoubowsky said parents play a critically important role, yet many don’t fully understand how different it is to be a high school student in today’s world of constant connectivity and increased demands on attention and energy.

According to the survey administered during the assembly, 72 percent of responding students go to sleep after their parents do.

“If I went to our parents and said, ‘Hey, I have a program I can offer you that’s going to improve your child’s health, which will improve their productivity, which will improve their grades — are you interested? And would you be willing to pay for this?’ And they would probably all say, ‘yes and yes,’” Jacoubowsky said. “Well, this program is absolutely free, and it’s called ‘monitoring your child’s sleep — and understanding (it).’ That’s the other part.”

Jacoubowsky and district nurse Linda Lenoir are planning a similar sleep-education program for parents in February, he said. Q

Sleep survey at Gunn High Have you ever seen a classmate fall asleep in class?

True (yes): 76 percent (150 responses) False (no): 24 percent (48 responses) Have you ever fallen asleep doing homework?

T: 46.5 percent (93 responses) F: 53.5 percent (107 responses) Have you ever skipped sleep to do homework?

T: 76 percent (152 responses) F: 24 percent (48 responses) Do you go to sleep after your parents do?

T: 72 percent (144 responses) F: 28 percent (56 responses) Do you wish you could have more sleep?

T: 87.5 percent (175 responses) F: 12.5 percent (25 responses) Do you wake up tired?

T: 86.5 percent (173 responses) F: 13.5 percent (27 responses) Have you ever seen a person drive drowsy?

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News Digest Marc Berman sets sights on Sacramento Palo Alto City Councilman Marc Berman is looking to Sacramento for his next elected position.

Berman, who was voted onto the council in 2012, said Thursday morning that he is preparing to run for the state Assembly seat currently occupied by Rich Gordon. Berman had briefly considered challenging Gordon in 2010 but withdrew from the race and went on to win a council seat.

Berman, who serves as the development director at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, announced that he raised more than $60,000 in the last two weeks of December for his run for the 24th Assembly District. Gordon’s term will expire in 2016.

Among his contributors, Berman said, are John Freidenrich, former board chair for Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Palo Alto High School’s entrepreneurial journalism teacher Esther Wojcicki.

“I am humbled by the early outpouring of support for the campaign,” Berman said in a statement. “I am honored by the encouragement I’ve received from so many in the community and excited to continue the conversation about the future of our state.”

As a councilman, Berman has taken a moderate and decidedly non-ideological approach. He cast a swing vote in the council’s decision to place a measure on the November ballot to reduce the council’s size from nine to seven seats. He has chaired the council’s Finance Committee and served on its Infrastructure Committee.

Before joining the council, Berman served on a citizen task force that surveyed the city’s infrastructure needs and recommended funding sources for addressing those needs. Q — Gennady Sheyner

East Palo Alto adopts historic inventory East Palo Alto’s rich history took a first step toward preservation on Jan. 6 after the City Council unanimously voted to adopt an inventory of the city’s historic places.

East Palo Alto residents, historians and members of the East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society worked with the San Mateo County Historical Association to identify historic properties within the city and helped create the 1994 Historic Resources Report. The list contains 52 properties as historic resources.

The council adopted the report, renaming it the Local Register of Historic Resources. The vote does not establish a program to protect or preserve the resources. The report merely identifies properties that would be classified as historic.

In the past 20 years, East Palo Alto has lost 29 percent of its potentially historic properties in part due to redevelopment and lack of any program or incentive to encourage preservation, according to a report

by Brent A. Butler, city planning and housing manager. Currently, 37 of the original 52 properties still exist.

The Weeks neighborhood has the largest remaining quantity of historic properties of regional significance, the report states. The properties are associated with the Charles Weeks Poultry Colony, a utopian society that existed near the turn of the 19th century, and San Mateo County’s first wharf, which was constructed during the height of the gold rush in 1848. Q — Sue Dremann

Man remains at large after street robbery Palo Alto police are investigating a robbery in which a man ripped a gold necklace from a woman’s neck, according to a police department press release.

Police said the robbery occurred just after 6 p.m. Jan. 1 in the 4000 block of Wilkie Way, north of the intersection at West Meadow Drive.

Investigators said the victim, a woman in her 40s, was walking north on the east sidewalk when the man ran up behind her, grabbed her around the neck, ripped her gold necklace off and pushed her to the ground. The man continued to run north on Wilkie, towards Maclane Street.

The woman called police, but officers were not able to locate the thief.

The man, who did not speak to the woman or have a weapon, is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall with a muscular build. He was wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt. No sketch of him is available, police said.

The victim suffered an abrasion on her neck caused by the removal of the chain, but she didn’t require medical attention, police said.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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train last April. The letter, signed by then-Mayor Nancy Shepherd, requested that the environmental document explore a dramatic option that would fix the predicted traffic problems: grade separation of the tracks and the streets (effectively creating underpasses or overpasses).

In the letter, the city requested that Caltrain establish a fund with which to explore various ideas, most notably placing the Caltrain corridor in a trench. Palo Alto also requested that Caltrain’s environmental analysis consider

ly 2013, the city adopted the Palo Alto Rail Corridor Study, a planning document that advocates for a below-grade track system and improved east-west connections across Alma Street, the Caltrain tracks and El Camino Real.

Caltrain’s EIR briefly acknowledges the document and its recommendation to trench the train, though it points out that the study is “dominated by concerns about the high-speed rail project.” But this statement is not entirely accurate. The Palo Alto study makes it clear in its introduction that it represents the city’s response “to planned rail investments along the Caltrain rail corridor, specifically the California High Speed Rail

‘We and the cities along the corridor have been promised for years that CEQA would be the backstop that protected us against significant impacts to improvements to the rail corridor that we otherwise support.’

—Pat Burt, councilman, City of Palo Alto whether the electric equipment and new substations will harm the city’s future ability to construct grade separations.

“Grade separations are an important issue in the Peninsula, and not something that can be ignored in this EIR given local traffic and safety concerns,” the city wrote in April.

Yet its request has gone largely unanswered. The EIR notes that while grade separations are a “technically feasible mitigation,” it is “financially infeasible for Caltrain to adopt a comprehensive program of grade separations as mitigation.”

“However, in the long-term where funding becomes available and it is acceptable to local jurisdictions, Caltrain would support grade separations in the long run,” the Final EIR states.

In detailing the difficulty of trenching the rail line, the environmental report stated that Caltrain would have to relocate the overhead contact system (OCS) that will connect trains to the electricity infrastructure.

The document says nothing about the cost or the design, engineering and construction challenges of moving the equipment once it’s installed to accommodate a trenched system.

Alternately, there would “usually be little to no need to relocate any portion of the OCS” if the roadways were submerged under the Caltrain tracks, Caltrain officials wrote.

Local support for building a trench along the Caltrain corridor has been growing since 2009, when Palo Alto officials and residents began their campaign to stop the California High-Speed Rail Authority from constructing an elevated four-track system along the tracks. The hugely unpopular proposal was ultimately scrapped and the rail authority agreed to pursue a “blended system” with Caltrain, one in which the two train services would share the same set of tracks along the Peninsula. In ear-

project and potential modifications to Caltrain operations.”

According to Caltrain’s EIR, the three Alma intersections are expected to operate at “Level F” (the worst possible congestion) whether or not the project proceeds, though things would get worse if it does. At the intersection of Alma and Charleston, cars could wait 2 minutes or longer in 2020, regardless of electrification.

Having the project in place would add 28 seconds to the wait during the morning peak hour and 9 seconds during the evening peak.

On Alma and Churchill, the wait would go from 83.9 seconds (already an “F” level) during the morning peak if the project is not implemented to 108.9 seconds if it is. A similar increase would take place during the evening peak on Alma and Meadow Drive.

In its April letter to Caltrain, Palo Alto had also requested that Caltrain improve bicycle and pedestrian amenities as part of the modernization project, either at the intersections or the Caltrain stations.

“Given the increased traffic identified in the DEIR (Draft Environmental Impact Report), pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements must be addressed in the FEIR (Final Environmental Impact Report); however, any pedestrian and bicycle improvements must emphasize safety,” Palo Alto’s letter, signed by Shepherd, states.

In response, Caltrain pointed out in the final EIR that there is “no evidence that additional bicycle and pedestrian facilities would meaningfully change the amount of bicyclists or pedestrians using Caltrain or have any meaningful effect on reducing traffic at the affected intersections.” The report thus did not propose any bicycle or pedestrian improvements.

Caltrain’s decision to include no mitigations at all for the most impacted local intersections did not please Palo Alto officials, who fired off another letter on Dec. 31.

“The FEIR clearly states for the Churchill, Meadow and Charleston grade crossings ... that ‘no feasible mitigation was identified.’

This response is not acceptable to the City, and at a minimum, the City requests that the Joint Powers Board set aside funds for design and engineering of grade separation solutions along the corridor,” the letter states.

Caltrain’s analysis makes another argument that Palo Alto officials find troubling: that the long-planned electrification project isn’t subject to California’s environmental laws. This argument did not appear in the draft EIR but has been inserted into the final document.

In the Final EIR, Caltrain officials claim that they don’t even have a legal obligation to put the document together but are “voluntarily adhering to the strictures of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act),” a law that aims to protect communities from the impacts of new developments and major projects and initiatives. In an apparent reference to a recent ruling regarding high-speed rail, the Caltrain EIR claims that a number of “court and regulatory decisions have held that the construction improvements and operation of federally regulated railroads are exempt from state environmental regulatory laws, including CEQA.” The Final EIR states the Caltrain board “expressly preserves its ability to assert preemption if

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Under Caltrain’s modernization plan, electricity-powered trains would replace existing diesel-fueled ones. legal challenges to the EIR are initiated.”

This argument, and the fact that it was made just before the document’s expected certification, was challenged by city officials, who have been assured all along that environmental law will protect their interests.

“Whether legal or not, this assertion being made at the 11th hour is wrong, creates distrust, calls into question the tremendous amount of time and money our City has invested in what we were led to believe was a true CEQA process, and is reminiscent of action taken by the California High Speed Rail Authority that created so much of the distrust regarding rail on the Peninsula we still deal with today,” Shepherd’s Dec. 31 letter stated. “In addition, it contradicts the many assurances we repeatedly received from Caltrain throughout this process that CEQA would be honored.”

Palo Alto Councilman Pat Burt, who had served on the council’s now-defunct Rail Committee, said he does not believe that Caltrain had adequately responded to the city’s concerns. Though he acknowledged the need to improve Caltrain service to accommodate increasing ridership, Burt told the Weekly he believes the agency should also consider other alternatives in conjunction with the electrification, including longer trains. He also raised concerns about Caltrain’s apparent aboutface on the issue of CEQA. “We and the cities along the corridor have been promised for years that CEQA would be the backstop that protected us against significant impacts to improvements to the rail corridor that we otherwise support,” Burt said.

“And now, they are saying that the most significant impacts in our community are unavoidable and won’t be mitigated.” Q

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six intersections on the entire El Camino corridor and at 19 related streets, even with road and signal improvements. In Palo Alto, those include the Page Mill intersection and one at Embarcadero Road/ Galvez Street and El Camino.

The list also includes Showers Drive in Mountain View.

Easing the added congestion would fall to local jurisdictions like Palo Alto, though VTA has promised to fund its “fair share,” based on how much traffic its

program adds.

In its proposed letter to VTA, the city states that it supports efforts to expand transit service “but only if significant impacts within our city can be effectively mitigated.”

The analysis from VTA identifies “significant traffic congestion along the Alma Street corridor and significant increases in delay along the El Camino corridor in the dedicated lane alternative, and yet fails to propose any mitigation measures to resolve these impacts,” Palo Alto’s letter states.

“This is unacceptable and makes it impossible for members of our community to support

what could be a transformational project for our region,” the city’s letter states. “VTA should give more thought to alternatives and mitigations, and ultimately present a (modified) project that addresses a (revised) purpose and need without significantly and adversely affecting other modes of travel.”

In the letter, Palo Alto officials also question many of the DEIR’s assumptions about ridership and request that the VTA explore traffic measures such as removal of “pork chop” islands and expanding sidewalk refuge areas for pedestrians at El Camino and

Charleston Road; consider El Camino as part of a network of corridors and devise broader solutions; and consider new fixes for intersections that would experience the most congestion.

It called the absence of solutions for Alma “particularly troubling.”

Even without the project, Alma is expected to have the worst delays, known as “Level F.” And with Caltrain planning to run more trains on its newly electrified corridor in 2019, which will affect four intersections in Palo Alto, traffic on the well-used stretch is expected to significantly worsen.

In a report to the council, plan-

ning staff also points out that the dedicated lanes would require the removal of 94 trees in Palo Alto, while the mixed-flow option would result in removal of up to 18 trees. Furthermore, the bus-only configuration could result in removal of 256 parking spaces, while the mixed-flow design would result in a loss of only seven spaces.

The VTA is accepting comments on its DEIR until Jan. 15.

After that, it will work on the final EIR, with the goal of launching construction in March 2017 and starting the new service in September 2018. Q

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council is scheduled to hear a presentation from Caltrain staff about the Final Environmental Impact Report for its electrification project; discuss the appeals process for the closure of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park; sign off on a letter to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Bus Rapid Transit initiative; and discuss the city’s legislative policy guidelines. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Expert-Panelists include: Jennifer Derenne MD & Neville Golden MD, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine Kristina Saffran, Project HEAL

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will take action on a revised design for the Gunn Central Building project; discuss the parcel tax, the charge for a new enrollment-management advisory committee and the purchase of Chromebooks for Palo Alto High School; and hear an annual independent audit report. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, in district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold study sessions on the Downtown Development Cap Update, the Bike Bridge Design Competition and recommended work-plan priorities for calendar year 2015. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board is scheduled to discuss a proposal by Golden Gate Homes LLC for a 30-unit housing development at 567 Maybell Ave.; consider a request by Ken Hayes Architects on behalf of Kipling Post LLC to demolish two retail buildings and construct a four-story, mixed-use building at 429 University Ave.; and review the three proposed designs submitted as part of the Bike Bridge Design Competition. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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sive, interchangeable outposts that any AltSchool student can attend at any time. If a Palo Alto family wants or needs to spend time with relatives in New York, their child could enroll in the Brooklyn school without skipping a beat, in theory. (Ventilla admitted this is slightly self-serving and frees up parents and families from staying in one place for more than a decade as their children go through elementary and middle school.)

“For us, it’s about balance,” Ventilla said. “It’s about creating that intimate, personalized, customizable environment that can actually change in major ways throughout the time that you spend at AltSchool. This idea that you should be choosing for your 4-year-old what experience that they’re going to have at age 12 and 13 doesn’t make any sense to us.

Even if you could predict it, it’s not clear that a child is going to be best served as their age triples by the same school experience in terms of what type of peers they have or what type of academic focus or what type of schedule of the day they experience.

“This idea (is) that we’re actually creating a network of all of the resources you want in a larger school” — such as shared technology, specialized knowledge,

established best practices — “and more, without losing the things that draw you to small schools.”

Alice Shikina, AltSchool’s community manager, told the crowd of parents Monday night that AltSchool changed the path of her two children significantly, and in very different ways. The school’s flexibility allowed one of her sons, an advanced reader, to move at a faster pace in his blended classroom. (AltSchool’s three “programs” are lower elementary, which is transitional kindergarten/ kindergarten and kindergarten/first grade; upper elementary, which is second/third and fourth/fifth grade; and middle school, which is sixth, seventh and eighth grade.)

Shikina’s other son has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and had been getting in trouble often in school, leaving his academics and self-esteem damaged. She said AltSchool helped him grow in the muchneeded area of social-emotional development, which he wouldn’t have experienced at his traditional school.

One parent Monday evening asked, “What type of student wouldn’t do well at AltSchool?”

Ventilla said that there is no single type, but students — and parents — who benefit from more regularity, structure and predictability might not adjust as well.

The Palo Alto location will be at 930 Emerson St., which for-

merly housed a car-repair shop and has room to accommodate 80 students, though Ventilla stressed Monday that the AltSchool admissions process is not designed to be exclusive or competitive.

The 5,000-square-foot space will be divided into three or four flexible classrooms, with a small area outside for students to play.

“We are accepting the vast majority of the people that apply to AltSchool,” he said.

Some students might not be placed at their ideal school location, or might be wait-listed until more room opens up — which could be at any point during the year, as AltSchool has year-round rolling admissions. Ventilla said his team, which is also rapidly growing, plans to meet whatever demand comes down the pipeline and is already looking at opening more locations in the South Bay. AltSchool is privately funded, raking in $33 million in venture capital this spring from big-name firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.

“That’s something that’s very, very different about AltSchool.

We’re not capacity-constrained, and we’re creating a network where things get better as more people participate,” Ventilla said.

Applications for Palo Alto are due Jan. 15, though Ventilla, who described going through an intensely competitive admissions process to get his daughter into

preschool, stressed that it is simply an information-gathering exercise that shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes to an hour. (Parents can even send in applications they have already filled out for other schools, he said.) AltSchool’s base tuition, which covers 10 months and not an opt-in summer session in Palo Alto, is $26,250 for elementary school and $27,000 for middle school. Need-based tuition assistance is available.

The most critical segments of the admissions process for AltSchool are parent interviews and school visits, explained AltSchool Director of Education Carolyn Wilson, who founded

Chrysalis School in Menlo Park and worked on a school-reform project at Stanford University.

The AltSchool team will begin to shape the Palo Alto classrooms based on these interviews and on the demographics and qualities of children who apply.

“We can stand on the shoulders of everyone that’s come before us,” Ventilla said. “Starting with first principles doesn’t mean abandoning all the great things that other people have figured out and are doing. It means taking advantage of them.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Jan. 5)

Mayor: The council elected Karen Holman as its mayor for 2015. Yes: Unanimous Vice Mayor: The council voted 5-4 to elect Greg Schmid as its vice mayor for 2015. The four dissenting votes were in favor of electing Pat Burt as vice mayor.

Yes: Berman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach No: Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman Appreciation: The council adopted resolutions of appreciation for outgoing council members Larry Klein, Gail Price and Nancy Shepherd. Yes: Unanimous

Historic Resources Board (Jan. 7)

251 Lincoln Ave.: The board approved a request by Margaret Wimmer for modifications and an addition to a residence in the Professorville Historic District. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Bunnenberg, DiCicco, Kohler, Makinen Recused: Wimmer

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These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.

Duo arrested after Palo Alto locker burglary Palo Alto police arrested two men for burglary early Tuesday morning after the victim provided police a partial license plate number of the getaway car, according to a police department press release. (Posted Jan. 7, 8:34 a.m.)

Caterer sentenced for theft at funeral reception

A fire that broke out at a Palo Alto home awakened a father and forced the family to flee early Tuesday morning, fire officials said.

(Posted Jan. 6, 7:49 a.m.)

East Palo Alto masseur arrested for sex crimes An East Palo Alto man who was arrested in September for sexual battery was taken into custody again after 21 women came forward to accuse him of similar crimes, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. (Posted Jan. 5, 4:25 p.m.)

Outage leaves customers without services Comcast customers in Palo Alto are without phone and Internet service Friday, Jan. 2, due to an outage. (Posted Jan. 2, 10:04 p.m.)

Police use technology to catch criminals On Dec. 30, Palo Alto police conducted a manhunt in north Palo Alto for a burglar who fell asleep in the home he had broken into. Officers used dogs, heat-sensing equipment and various other technologies in an effort to flush out the man. (Posted Jan. 2, 4:13 p.m.)

Philip A. Diether

June 3, 1930 - Dec. 21, 2014 Philip A. Diether died peacefully Dec. 21; he was 84. He was born in Los Angeles in 1930. He served during the Korean War at the Army Language School in Monterey, CA. In 1956, he married his college sweetheart, Liz (Littler) Diether, whom he met in the Stanford Folk Dancers club. From this group, Phil and Liz found life-long friends with and around whom they raised their children: Gretchen, Ingrid, and Jeffrey. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1958. Phil worked in Palo Alto for Space Systems Loral.

In service to his community, Phil was a first aid instructor and volunteer with the American Red Cross, and member of the National Ski Patrol (NSP) from 1967 to 1981. He was heavily involved in avalanche safety and taught for the US Forest Service National Avalanche School in Reno and Seattle. Along with his wife and daughters, Phil was involved in Girl Scout troop and camporee activities, and worked with the Boy Scout Medical Explorer Post. He was a member and trip naturalist with the Sierra Club. Phil also volunteered as a naturalist at Foothills Park, giving talks on flora and fauna.

At home, Phil loved to garden. He had an extensive collection of butterflies, skulls, bones, and birds’ nests that made his office an in-home museum. He and Liz traveled extensively. He was a fixture at his adult-kids’ sporting events, and was intrigued to help his granddaughters learn about the world around them.

Phil is survived by his sister, Barbara, his children, Gretchen, Ingrid, and Jeffrey, and his twin granddaughters, Bridget and Colleen. A “Celebration of Life” memorial will be held on Jan. 10, at 11:30 at Alta Mesa Cemetery with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, a charitable donation may be made: The American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter, The Parkinson’s Institute, or Peninsula Open Space Trust.

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A packed crowd at City Hall listens to City Manager Jim Keene give his 2014 Year in Review presentation on Jan. 5.

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issues and who served with her on the Planning and Transportation Commission, quickly agreed and added his voice to the nomination.

“She is a voice that’s trusted and respected by those who agree with her and those who do not,” said Burt, who had nominated Holman for vice mayor in both 2013 and 2014 but could not muster majority support in either year.

In accepting the nomination, Holman said she plans to focus the next year on reforming the city’s architectural-review process, improving staff reports to make information “better and easier to understand,” increase retail opportunities and strengthening neighborhoods.

“As your new mayor, I will provide inclusive leadership to address these and other issues,” Holman said.

Schmid’s election was far more suspenseful, with the retired economist edging out Burt by a single vote for the second leadership position. Greg Scharff nominated Schmid for the vice mayor spot, with Kniss, Marc Berman, Cory Wolbach and Schmid himself joining in with votes of support. Holman, Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Burt cast their paper ballots in favor of Burt.

Both Burt and Schmid were elected to the council in 2007 and were re-elected to second terms in 2012. But while Burt had served as mayor in 2010, Schmid has not held a leadership position until

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An East Palo Alto man was sentenced to two years of incarceration Monday for stealing a wallet while working as a caterer with his girlfriend at a Belmont funeral reception last summer, prosecutors said Jan. 6. (Posted Jan. 6, 4:39 p.m.)

New council member Eric Filseth is sworn into office by Acting City Clerk Beth Minor at City Hall on Jan. 5. now. Both Schmid and Burt have been associated with the “residentialist” camp, and Burt said in a brief statement before the vote that he believes Schmid would “serve well as vice mayor.”

While Filseth nominated Burt, his choice fell one vote short. With each candidate receiving four votes, the final paper ballot, cast by Wolbach, had Schmid’s name on it.

In nominating Schmid, Scharff lauded his “encyclopedic knowledge,” commitment to transparency and work ethic. He also praised Schmid’s role as past chair of the council’s Finance Committee and Regional Housing Mandate Committee.

“Greg is one of the most hardworking council members we have,” Scharff said. “He just knows every detail on everything in the packet.”

In brief remarks before the vote,

Schmid focused on the role of the City Council and said there are two “great and unique things” about local government.

“It’s easy for the public, for individuals, to participate,” Schmid said. “And two, it may take a long time, but in contrast to other levels of government like the state and federal, it always produces a decision.”

The meeting began with a swearing-in ceremony for the five members who won council terms last November: incumbents Scharff and Holman and newcomers DuBois, Filseth and Wolbach.

The meeting was also the swan song for three outgoing members, each of whom received a standing ovation and a resolution of appreciation in his or her honor. Councilman Larry Klein concluded on Monday a council career that spanned nearly two decades and three terms as mayor. Klein, who served on the council in the 1980s before returning in 2007, was termed out at the end of last year.

Gail Price concluded her first term last year but chose not to run for another term. Nancy Shepherd did run for a second term but could not win re-election during a heated race in which voters handed the council majority to proponents of slow growth. Q

Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Dec. 31-Jan. 6

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shoplifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving with suspended license . . . . . .

Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . .

Vehicle accident/property damage . . .

Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . .

Driving under influence/misc. . . . . . . .

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Open container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . .

Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Disposal request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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May 22, 1928-Dec. 31, 2014 The close of 2014 was marked by the passing of long time Palo Alto resident Gloria R. Brown. She dedicated many years of her life to a variety of civic endeavors including the Palo Alto Historical Association, heading the local Nicotine Anonymous group, introducing new citizens to the political process and working in or managing numerous local political campaigns. She loved the beauty of her garden, attending the West Bay Opera productions and preserving her father’s early 1900s photographic works of the people in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Friends are invited to join the family in a gathering of remembrance from 10:30 AM to noon Saturday 1/10/2015 at 2310 Bowdoin St., Palo Alto In lieu of flowers donations may be made to West Bay Opera

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Long time Palo Alto resident Ann G. Vollmer passed away on December 2, 2014 peacefully at her home from thyroid cancer. She was born to Paul B. Grattan and Ruth Blevens in Tulsa, OK in 1925.

She is survived by: her sister Jane Lopes of Muskogee, OK and her three children; Daniel Vollmer, Susan Vollmer (Phil), and Mason Vollmer (Martha), and a grandchild Oliver Vollmer.

Ann attended Tulsa University and first came to Stanford in 1946 as a secretary for the Brookings Institute. Ann worked as secretary for the Dean of Stanford Memorial Chapel and later was honored for her leadership and many years of service as Executive Secretary for the Dean of the Department of Economics at Stanford University.

Palo Alto was a wonderful home for Ann where she made many friends. The arts, academia, and natural beauty of this region constantly enriched and nurtured her life. She was a member of the Tri Delta Sorority, Stanford Staffers Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. The love of family and friends surrounds her memory.

Her children invite friends to a Celebration of her Life on Friday Jan. 30, 2014, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Channing House, 11th floor, 850 Webster St., Palo Alto.

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Martin Anderson Aug. 5, 1936 – Jan. 3, 2015

Martin Anderson died peacefully in his sleep on January 3, 2015 at his home in Portola Valley, CA. He was 78 years old. He is survived by his wife, Annelise, of 49 years and his half-brother, James McHugh, Jr., of Rye, NH, and his wife, Susan, and their two daughters.

Anderson was the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow, emeritus, at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He combined an active academic and writing career with leaves of absence to work in the political campaigns and presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. His final book, co-authored with his wife, Ronald Reagan: Decisions of Greatness, will be published by the Hoover Institution Press in February.

He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, August 5, 1936, son of Ralph and Evelyn Anderson. He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1957, received his M.S. in engineering and business administration in 1958 from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business, and earned a Ph.D. in industrial management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. He married Annelise Graebner September 25, 1965.

Anderson taught finance at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, where he was on the faculty from 19621968. In 1967 he began advising presidential candidate Richard Nixon on domestic policy and especially on ending the military draft and moving to an all-volunteer armed force, and was director of research during the 1968 campaign. He worked as special assistant to President Richard Nixon and then as a special consultant from 1969 to 1971, when he became a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

In 1980 Anderson was a senior policy adviser to Ronald Reagan during his presidential campaign, and served Reagan as assistant to the president for policy development, 1981-82, where he was a major contributor to Reagan’s economic policy and to policies on missile defense.

Anderson’s first book was The Federal Bulldozer: A Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949-1962 (MIT Press, 1964), a ground-breaking effort to evaluate federal government programs. He also wrote extensively on the military draft, welfare reform, economic policy, and university education.

In 1988 Revolution (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), about the Reagan presidency, was published. Theodore White, historian of presidential campaigns, wrote that “Anderson gave orientation to the Reagan campaign. . . . it was Anderson who shaped the overriding themes of economic discipline and political turnaround.”

Anderson co-edited several collections of Reagan’s own writings that have influenced considerably the understanding of Reagan, including Reagan, In His Own Hand (2001, The Free Press) and Reagan: A Life in Letters (2003, The Free Press). In 2009 he wrote, with Annelise Anderson, Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster (Crown).

Anderson also served as member, Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, 1973-75; member, Defense Manpower Commission, 1975-76; member, Committee on the Present Danger, 1977-91; member, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1982-85; member, President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, 1982-89; member, President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, 1987-93; member, National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education; 199798; trustee, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, 1985-90; member, California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers, 1993-98; chairman, Congressional Policy Advisory Board, 199801; member, Defense Policy Advisory Board, 2001; member, Defense Advisory Committee on Military Compensation, 2005; and 2d Lt., Army Security Agency, 1958-59.

Services were held at the Alta Mesa Funeral Home, 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA on Thursday Jan 8, 2015.

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Carl Degler

Carl N. Degler, a Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime American history professor at Stanford University, died on Dec. 27. He was 93.

He was born on Feb. 6, 1921, in Newark, New Jersey.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Force in India from 1942 to 1945.

Afterwards he studied at Columbia University, from where he received a master’s degree in 1947 and a doctoral degree in 1952. He also held a bachelor’s degree in history from Upsala College. At Columbia, he met Catherine Grady, to whom he

was married for 50 years, up until her death.

He started his career as a professor at Vassar College in New York in 1952, teaching there for 16 years. He also taught briefly at City College of New York and New York University and held the honorary Harmsworth professorship at Oxford University.

His career at Stanford lasted from 1968 until his 1990 retirement, during which he served as leading adviser for 23 doctoraldegree students in American history. At Stanford, he held the title of Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus.

His main research interests — which often focused on groups previously ignored by scholarship — included the American South, comparative race relations

Marilyn Esther Zatz Marilyn Esther Zatz died on January 2, 2015, at Channing House in Palo Alto, CA from complications associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. She was born in Weehawken, NJ, on March 30, 1931 to Ralph and Jeanne Stein. She received a BBS degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Syracuse University College of Business Administration in 1952.

She married Leslie Zatz on July 26, 1953 and they lived in Denver, CO where she did part time market research; Philadelphia, PA where she worked in the auditing office of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.; and San Francisco, CA where she worked parttime at St. Francis Hospital Cleft Palate Clinic before settling in Palo Alto, CA in 1959. She worked part-time at AddisonWesley Publishing, Palo Alto between 1986 and 1995.

Marilyn, known by her college nickname of Micki, was an active volunteer in many community activities. Micki was a member of the League of Women Voters since 1954 and was an officer and board member in its local unit. She was a Braille transcriber when her children were young; she was chair of the PTA Human Relations Committee and served on the PAUSD Boundary Committee between 1971 and 1976; she was Treasurer and a Board Member of the Bayshore Employment Service of East Palo Alto between 1971 and 1986; Treasurer and a Board Member of the Fair Housing Council between 1976 and 1984; Board member and officer including President of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation and a member of the Finance Committee between 1978 and 2013; member of the Finance Committee and Treasurer of Senior Day Health Care between 1982 and 2009; Secretary-Treasurer of the Colorado Park Housing Corporation between 1989 and 2013; and an active participant in the Friends of the Palo Alto Library monthly book sale from 1990 to 2011.

Micki was predeceased by her only sibling, her older brother Harold Stein, a professional jazz musician. She is survived by her husband, Leslie M. Zatz, MD.; their three children Sharon Sozanski (aka Sherilyn Ward), Daniel Zatz, and Jonathan Zatz (wife Raylene); and four grandchildren Christine Sozanski, Ben Zatz, Jeanette Sozanski, and Jake Zatz.

Memorial services will be private. Donations in Micki’s memory can be made to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation (EPAK) at www.epak.org or to a charity of your choice.

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in Brazil and the U.S., women’s role in American society and Darwin’s influence on American culture. Among his many books were “Out of Our Past,” “At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present” and “Neither Black nor White,” for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

Therese Baker-Degler, his second wife and a sociologist, and Stanford history professor Estelle Friedman both noted his work on and support for women’s and feminist studies. Degler was one of two men asked by feminist icon Betty Friedan in 1966 to be a part of the National Organization for Women, according to BakerDegler. Colleagues and former students also appreciated his encouragement, sincerity, discerning critical work and great skill in taking on big ideas.

Highly regarded in his field throughout his career, he was chosen as president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

He is survived by his wife of 14 years, Therese Baker-Degler; two children, Paul Degler of Bethesda, Maryland, and Suzanne Degler of Palo Alto; and four grandchildren.

A private funeral was held on Jan. 3 in Palo Alto. A memorial service for the Stanford community is being planned for the spring.

Virginia O’Hagan Herbert

Virginia Rezek O’Hagan Herbert, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on Dec. 4, 2014, at her home. She was 95.

She was born on Jan. 3, 1919, in Roanoke, Virginia, and she primarily grew up there.

In 1938, she and her mother moved to California, and she went on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1940.

She then trained to become a teacher, taking her first job teaching English and drama at Elk Grove High School. She taught English and humanities for nearly 40 years, including in the Sequoia Union High School District at Sequoia and Carlmont high schools and at San Carlos High School, from where she retired in 1979.

She took a sabbatical year beginning in 1965 when she received a fellowship to attend Harvard University to study poetry.

She was married three times, first in 1944 to Herschel B. Chipp, who was the father of her son Dennis. She later married Turlogh

Transitions O’Hagan, with whom she had her daughter Maureen. Both marriages ended in divorce. Later in life, she married LeRoy V. Herbert in 1988, and they lived together happily until his death in 1998.

An avid traveler, she visited many countries across the globe throughout her life. In her retirement, she also participated in the Peninsula Symphony Association, the Radcliffe Club of the Peninsula and the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto.

She was predeceased by her sister, Anne Butler of Menlo Park; her son, Dennis Browning Chipp; and her three husbands. She is survived by her daughter, Maureen (Joel) Steed of Ukiah, California; her nephew, Penn (Nancy) Butler of Atherton; and her niece, Lynn (Brian) Chichi of San Clemente, California.

A memorial service was held on Dec. 13, 2014, at First Baptist Church of Palo Alto. A celebration of life will take place next spring. Those interested in attending should contact Maureen at mohagan1454@att.net. Memorial donations can be made to Defenders of Wildlife or Earthjustice.

Marcel Vinokur

Marcel Vinokur — a longtime Palo Alto resident, an aeronautical engineer and a folk dance instructor and historian — died on Nov. 14, 2014, in his sleep at his Palo Alto home, where he had lived for 47 years. He was 85.

He was born on Feb. 16, 1929, in Ostrava, now part of the Czech Republic. His family, which was Jewish, witnessed the Nazis taking over Czechoslovakia in 1939.

They fled a few weeks later to Le Havre and secured passage by boat to New York City.

There he graduated from Stuyvesant High School, going on to study at Cornell University and earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and later a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University. He took his first folk dancing class at Cornell, and he taught one himself at Princeton.

He soon moved to California to work at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., settling in Palo Alto in 1956. Later he took a post at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he contributed to the manned space program and published many scientific papers. In addition, he taught physics at Santa Clara University. He continued to work on projects at NASA up until his death.

Not long after his move west, he began teaching Balkan and Israeli folk dancing classes in Palo Alto, soon moving them to Menlo Park, where he taught his last class in 2012. He also taught classes at Foothill College, the College of San Mateo and at University of California, Santa Cruz.

With his wife Kathryn, he also organized an annual Mother’s Day folk dance campout at Yosemite National Park. He met his wife in Palo Alto in the early 1960s during a campaign to block the proposed Oregon Expressway.

Among other activities, he served in Palo Alto as an American Youth Soccer Organization referee, held season tickets with the Oakland Athletics and went on Alpine hiking treks, his last at age 74. He was also a self-declared humanist, favoring a secular philosophy that was optimistic about science and humanity.

He is survived by his wife of

around 50 years, Kathryn Vinokur of Palo Alto; son, David Vinokur of London; two stepsons, Christopher Sloan of Portland, Oregon, and Robert Sloan of Sunnyvale; and eight grandchildren.

A memorial celebration — including remembrances and dancing — will be held on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 6 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Community Center Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorial donations be made to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (www.csicop.org), P.O. Box 703, Amherst, NY 14226.

Joan Breckenridge Robinson Oct. 31, 1927-Dec. 14, 2014

Joan, who passed away peacefully on December 14, 2014 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, was born in Pueblo, Colorado on October 31, 1927. Her parents were Robert G. Breckenridge and Viola T. Breckenridge.

She resided in Pueblo until her family moved to Denver in 1940.

In Denver she attended East High and graduated in 1945. Joan then spent a year at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri. She transferred to the University of Colorado in Boulder where her mother, father and aunt were graduates and where her uncle Bob Evans had been the football and basketball coach.

At the University of Colorado Joan was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was involved in intramural sports, served on the Panhellenic Council, and was a member of the Winter Carnival Committee. She graduated in 1949 with a B.A. in Arts and Science.

In 1950, Joan moved to San Francisco and began her career in the travel industry with United Airlines. She met Sam in San Francisco and, in 1959, Joan and Sam were married at the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco. They moved to Menlo Park in 1959 and then to Palo Alto in 1961.

Son Breck was born in 1962 and daughter Amy in 1964. When Breck and Amy were well along in school Joan returned to the travel business where she worked for several travel agencies in Palo Alto. A career change landed her at Stanford University where she worked in the president’s office before moving to the Graduate School of Business where she was the coordinator of alumni reunions.

During her years in Palo Alto Joan was involved in many activities. She served as president of Walter Hays Elementary School PTA, was a member of the Woodside Atherton Auxiliary, and worked at Stanford Treasure Mart. Joan was a long time member of the First Congregational Church.

In her free time Joan enjoyed golf, tennis, swimming and walking. And Joan always looked forward to playing bridge and folk dancing with friends in Palo Alto. Joan also loved to travel and over the years she and Sam were able to visit many places around the world.

In addition to the above activities, Joan spent many years as a small business entrepreneur. One Christmas back in the 70s, Joan and Gerry Shaw designed and made candle wreaths that they sold throughout the Bay Area. Joan continued to make wreaths for many years. During Christmas her family and friends bring out Joan’s wreaths as part of their holiday decorations.

The other business was a “Tupperware Party” of houseplants which Joan and Karen Olsen started together. Karen remembers the many times that she and Joan drove to Half Moon Bay, loaded up their station wagons with plants and delivered them to homes in Palo Alto.

Joan is survived by her husband Sam, her son Breck, her daughter Amy, grandchildren Claire, Will and Tommy, brother Robert, and many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Joan’s life will be held on January 17, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Palo Alto. The church is located at 1985 Louis Road (at the intersection of Embarcadero Road).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, 34 Washington Street, Suite 200, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 (curealz.org).

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Wayne LeRoy Richter Wayne LeRoy Richter passed away in his home on December 22, 2014. Recently diagnosed, he suffered with ALS, (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).

Wayne was born June 1926 in Green, Kansas. After graduating from Manhattan High School, Ks. in 1944, he joined the Navy and served during World War II. Wayne met Louise Houplin in 1945 at a USO dance while stationed in Alameda, Ca. They married September 1946, and remained together for over 59 years.

The family moved to Palo Alto in 1953. Wayne worked for American Trust, which became Wells Fargo Bank, until 1982.

Refusing to retire early, he worked at Eureka Bank for nine years. Wayne spent 50 years as a member and volunteer with the Lions Club Int., serving as club treasurer of the Menlo Park Live Oak Lions for 33 years. He and Louise also became members of Kusamura Bonsai Club. Wayne was a member of SIRS, Sons in Retirement. He played golf weekly with the SIRS and the Nine Hole Club. Wayne is survived by his daughters, Judith and husband William Imes, Jane Horton, Jennifer and husband Tom Winters; Grandchildren: Aaron Horton, Ian Horton, Brenden Nowak and wife Heather, Jeremy Willis, Timothy Winters, Miranda Winters, and Sean HortonMurphy; four great-grandchildren and aide Penny Shanley. He was preceded in death by Louise in 2006 and grandson Shane M. W. Nowak in 2011. Inurnment and a memorial service will be held in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto on January 17, 2015 at 11:00AM. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to: Seasons Hospice: 408 377-3018 Or ALS Association: 888 949-2577 PAID

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Doris Lyons Hoover Oct. 8, 1927–Dec. 26, 2014

Doris Lyons Hoover was born in Fort Payne, Alabama on Oct. 8, 1927 on her grandparents’ farm.

She was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee and attended college at the University of Chattanooga, (now UTC) where she received honors in art and was elected homecoming queen and Miss U.C. At U.C. she met her husband Jack Hoover, and the couple moved to Palo Alto in 1954.

Doris became a nationally known fabric artist, teacher, lecturer and co-founder of the Peninsula Stitchery Guild, a leading organization in the Bay Area Crafts Movement of the 1970s. Her beautiful, often playful quilts, soft sculptures and creative stitchings grace homes, offices and museums throughout California and beyond. She also authored “Too Hot to Handle: Potholders and How to Make Them,” and co-authored “Tassels,” another how-to book.

Art permeated Doris’s life, and both her home and garden were a constantly evolving visual feast enjoyed by friends and family.

She also found time to serve as Sunday school teacher, art teacher, mother and wife. She loved to dance, garden, read and travel.

Doris is survived by her husband Jack Hoover; daughters Tamis Renteria (Beto), Shawn Hoover (Don Dilley) and Tegan Hoover (Patrick Mundy); and grandchildren Lucas and Eli Renteria and Piper Mundy. An archive of her work in fabric art has been established at Vanderbilt University.

A memorial service will be held at Palo Alto Church of Christ, 3373 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto on Saturday, January 31st at 2:00.

Please join the family afterward for a reception in the community room.

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Editorial Caltrain’s bad judgment Electrification project is pushed forward with impunity

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ith trains on the Peninsula currently operating at record, standing-room-only levels and providing an increasingly unpleasant commute experience, Caltrain is appropriately eager to get started this year on its $1.5 billion electrification project.

Unfortunately, it is also completely brushing off important concerns raised by Palo Alto over the substantial negative impacts at the city’s three railroad grade crossings. And, adding insult to injury, it is boldly claiming exemption from the environmental law that gives the public the right to challenge the adequacy of mitigation measures.

Replacing diesel-powered trains with modern electric engines will enable faster, more frequent and quieter operations, will nearly eliminate air pollution and is the best way to significantly address the growing demand for the service.

It is clearly the right move and enjoys widespread support. But it cannot be done in a vacuum and leave to later a solution to the problem of existing grade-level road crossings as if they aren’t related to the project.

To accomplish the electrification, an overhead electric-wiring system will be constructed for the entire 51-mile corridor from San Francisco to San Jose. (Electrification between San Jose and Gilroy is not part of the plan.) The project is now expected to be completed in late 2020 or early 2021.

When done, more frequent train service, especially during peak times, will make getting across the tracks even more difficult than it currently is for cars, bikes and pedestrians.

Perhaps feeling emboldened by the train system’s current popularity, Caltrain has arrogantly chosen to simply disregard important negative impacts of the modernization program and has declared itself to be outside the reach of the state’s environmental laws.

Yesterday the Caltrain board of directors, composed of three representatives each from San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, was expected to approve the final environmental impact report (EIR) as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) but assert that it wasn’t legally obligated to follow CEQA and was only “voluntarily” following CEQA procedures.

The claimed exemption from state environmental laws was a new addition to the final EIR, released on Dec. 4. It says the Caltrain board “expressly preserves its ability to assert preemption if legal challenges to the EIR are initiated.”

The Caltrain board, apparently at the urging of its publicly paid attorneys, is trying to piggy-back on a recent court decision that ruled the High Speed Rail Authority wasn’t subject to CEQA because it is a federally regulated railway system. In issuing the final EIR, Caltrain’s press release made no mention of its new claim of CEQA exemption even though it was the most significant change made.

The legal issue of federal pre-emption aside, Caltrain staff has repeatedly assured the public and city officials throughout the rail corridor that the environmental review process was the protection cities needed to ensure impacts of the rail project were properly addressed.

Of primary concern for Palo Altans is what will happen with the three heavily congested grade-level crossings at Charleston, Meadow and Churchill, all of which will be operating at the worst possible “F” level of congestion even without the rail electrification and increased service, but which will be substantially worse when the project is completed if no changes occur at these crossings.

The city of Palo Alto has repeatedly raised concern about these crossings, but Caltrain says the impacts are “unavoidable” and any mitigation is “financially infeasible.”

Caltrain, a public agency operated by SamTrans under contract from the three-county “joint powers” agency, owes the public far more than that if it expects any further taxpayer support for a viable train system in the future. After years of being snubbed by the allocation of funds from several Santa Clara County transit sales-tax measures, which were instead diverted to BART, it’s long past time for Caltrain to include planning and engineering costs for the least expensive method of eliminating grade crossings: raised berms and lowered roadway undercrossings.

After San Francisco, Palo Alto is the busiest station in the entire Caltrain system, and Palo Alto voters have repeatedly given strong support to county transit sales-tax measures that contained unfulfilled promises for Caltrain improvements.

If Caltrain has any hope of Palo Alto voters supporting future transit taxes, it needs to be a forceful advocate and partner in accomplishing grade separations. Without that, it is merely seeking to bully its way to a system that will ultimately fail to achieve its full potential.

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

The cutting edge

Editor, Silicon Valley is sometimes referred to as being on the cutting edge. I did not know that meant embedding cut glass in the sidewalks.

Some folks at City Hall are real cutups, aren’t they?

Paul Machado Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto

Darkness redux

Editor, Mike Murnane wrote a good letter recently urging bikers, now that it gets dark early, to wear reflective clothes, lights and reflectors to protect themselves.

This time of year, however, it is not just bikers. As a Downtown North resident I am accustomed to jaywalkers as well as pedestrians with zero regard for traffic lights, both often focused completely on their phones. And I try to be hyper-vigilant to avoid them.

But darkness makes it harder.

And it’s even worse for those who are wearing dark clothing, parking in the neighborhoods and running across side streets where the lights are not as bright. Even though we residents may be frustrated with the parking situation, that doesn’t mean we want to hit anyone.

So as an open note to anyone walking downtown, please, when it’s dark (and/or rainy), be a little more careful.

Janice Hough Bryant Street, Palo Alto

Some light

Editor, It’s so easy for one to complain about what’s wrong instead of what’s right. That’s why I found the article about one woman promoting poetry in Palo Alto so refreshing. Members of our community need to know of the positive things that occur all around us. Let’s applaud people like Barbara Allen and reporter Sue Dremann for bringing a light in times of darkness.

Lorin Krogh Encina Avenue, Palo Alto

Anonymity protects

Editor, Bruce Hodge asks you to reconsider your policy of allowing anonymous commenters on your website because he feels “insulted and almost assaulted by the often untruthful and hateful statements made.”

I know Bruce as an intelligent and thoughtful person. I read the comments posted on his guest opinion about climate change

(Nov. 1), and while many climate change deniers commented — as one would expect — I didn’t see anything resembling “a sledgehammer of hate and mockery.”

Most of the comments are typical of what one might hear on a talk show or around a dinner table when discussing climate change.

People have good reasons to post anonymously. Even The New York Times allows display names.

For many, it’s a privacy issue. Given a name, it’s easy to find phone numbers. Children can be subject to harassment based on their parents’ comments.

Anonymity is important, even though some take advantage of it.

But many anonymous posts are astute and rational. In any case, the Weekly deletes anything egregious.

Please do not change your anon-

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Think, please

Editor, The City of Palo Alto is considering switching from natural gas to electricity for all appliances in new homes, including water heaters and furnaces.

If all our heating and hot water were electric, then when there was an electrical outage, people would be without heat and hot water, as well as lights! Think about it! And it’s probably true that some electricity comes from gas-powered plants.

Fuel switching is a bad idea.

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Guest Opinion New mayor’s priorities include ‘how we communicate’ as a community

by Jay Thorwaldson he political shift in Palo Alto became official Monday night with the unanimous election of C o u n c i l wo m a n Karen Holman as the city’s mayor for 2015.

The only surprise was that Holman was nominated for the mayorship by Councilwoman Liz Kniss, who served as vice mayor in 2014 and who in the normal tradition of the council might have expected to be mayor this year.

Even Holman was surprised. She had expected to be nominated by Councilman Pat Burt, who was a candidate for vice mayor this year. Burt had twice earlier nominated Holman for vice mayor, and the two have often agreed about curtailing growth when specific projects came before the council.

They also have pushed for increased funding for social services, to restore cutbacks.

A secondary-level surprise was the single-vote win for the vice mayor slot by Councilman Greg Schmid, a soft-spoken council member known for his diligent research of agenda items.

But the election of new “residentialist” council members last year shifted the political landscape, and some harsh language surfacing in emails and tweets has raised concerns about a serious split in the community, similar to a bitter 7-to-6 bloc-voting pattern that split the council and community in the 1960s.

Holman was ready for the win, com-

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plete with prepared remarks “just in case.”

She noted that “Palo Alto is a remarkable place,” with many accomplishments of which it can be proud.

“We must, however, never be so proud of our good fortunes that we lose sight of the fact that also have people without a warm place to lay their heads on cold winter nights,” she cautioned.

“And we are fortunate also to have an engaged, intelligent public that cares deeply about this, your community,” she added, welcoming “continued engagement. We are all in this together. We are all neighbors.”

She listed several “central initiatives” that need addressing, noting that “Seldom do we have second chances to get it right.”

Those include reform of the architectural-review process to promote “architecture that enriches our daily experience.”

Another big one is how information is presented by city staff on items before the council, including earlier release of council packets and other ways to “further support transparent decision-making process” and how information is presented “for better and easier understanding.”

Another priority is strengthening the diverse voices of neighborhoods and fostering “a sense of attachment” through improved access to timely information and resources.

Three related priorities are to (1) increase retail opportunities and protect local independent retail; (2) get ahead of changes on the California Avenue commercial strip so “changed market forces” don’t “dominate and define the future of this vital part of Palo Alto”; and (3) address the issue of office development and its “significant impact on parking, traffic, housing demand, quality of life.”

She skipped over the updating of the city’s Comprehensive Plan and other initiatives that are already underway.

“Clearly we have a lot of work in front of us,” she noted in almost an understatement.

Holman then returned to her opening theme: how members of the community communicate with each other — with a special invitation.

“We are all truly in this together,” she said. “We up here (on the council dais) also live and work, recreate, raise children, shop and dine and move about here.

“I ask that you carry the momentum of this past election forward by continuing to ask questions, speak up and ask your neighbors to join in this civic discussion as we set forth.

“And to help us set a tone for responsible and productive communication,” whether at formal council meetings, less formal townhall meetings or any other venue.

The lattermost, though unsaid, presumably includes online comments, tweets and neighborhood listservs, now in common use in most neighborhoods.

“Your voice matters,” she concluded.

In a telephone interview Tuesday, Holman, noting she was a bit sleep-deprived from the excitement and celebration Monday night, elaborated on some of her concerns.

The “political divide” in town and on the council is a big one, which she alluded to Monday night.

“I said a few words but didn’t elaborate about how we communicate with each other.

I think that’s really important, because communicating in a manner that other people can hear, that not only is clear and factual” but is also productive and constructive, is vital.

“How information is presented and how concerns are presented makes a big differ-

ence,” she said.

“So if someone has concerns about a ‘bias in staff reports,’ then raises the concern about biases — and those concerns should be raised, they absolutely should be raised — but to describe somebody as being corrupt rather than being in the context of raising that concern, that’s not a way to get to a concern that’s well-heard or productive.

“Go after the issue and not the person,” she emphasized. “After we raise the hard questions, also be mindful about how they’re posed.”

Staff reports themselves deserve a look also, and beyond clarity and completeness need to include how a project fits with the city’s zoning ordinance and Comprehensive Plan — sometimes referred to as the city’s “bible” for development but really more of a loose guideline, with just about something in it for everyone.

Including alternatives in staff reports would also be helpful in the council’s decision-making and discussion and would help “eliminate the appearance” of bias, while including more tables and charts might help with clarity — especially when considering cumulative impacts and development limits for commercial areas such as downtown Palo Alto.

“Personally I want to set a playing field that’s fair for the applicant, the public, the staff and the council.”

Holman said increasing the clarity and focus of reports should reduce questions from the public and council members and actually shorten council meetings — one goal that has proved elusive for decades. n Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

How important is it for high school students to have exposure to computer science?

Asked at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Jennah Feeley.

Charlene Maltzman

Leilani Yau

Jonathan Abel

Kitty Walsh

Ray Williams

“Very, because technology is moving so fast. With coding and everything, it would be a disservice not to expose them.”

“I think in this day and age we should expose high school and even younger kids. ... We live in Silicon Valley and that’s what we do here.”

“It seems important. We’re kind of in Silicon Valley, aren’t we?”

“It’s pretty important because it’s the way the world is going, but they also need exposure to the arts.”

“Very important. Computer knowledge is kind of a new equivalent reading skill. You need to be able to use a computer to enjoy the wonders of our society.”

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Doctors, academics debate the possibility, value of a 150-year lifespan

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Dr. Joon Yun is the benefactor of the $1 million Palo Alto Longevity Prize and president of Palo Alto Investors.

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wars and crimes would still claim lives. But the hope is to make natural aging and death a thing of the past. In short, the fight is, ultimately, not just against disease and aging but about the very notion of longevity itself.

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n fact, there already exists something that is proven to slow the erosion of homeostatic capacity and increase healthy longevity: exercise. Dr. Walter Bortz, 84, is a physician and author who teaches medicine at Stanford University. He is best known for being an advocate for a 100-year lifespan and has written dozens of articles and several books on the topic.

“Aging is not a disease!” said Bortz, as he and his wife, Ruth Anne, sipped wine and looked out over Palo Alto from the hills of Portola Valley recently.

“Neither is aging the same as frailty. Frailty and bodily decline are a result of disuse. These conditions considered to be agingdriven diseases — Alzheimer’s, diabetes, hypertension — are not related to aging at all; they are a result of lack of energy,” he said.

For evidence of the connection between exercise and healthy aging, look no further than the Bortzes: They’ve been doing marathons for decades and are regularly seen running in their neighborhood.

To be sure, they are no fans of getting older and being reminded of their age, but they are adamant that getting older is separate from being healthy.

“I just turned 84, and it was horrible,” said Ruth Anne Bortz, lamenting her accumulation of years and the approach of 100.

“Better than being dead at 84,”

Walter and Ruth Anne Bortz stand on the street outside of their Portola Valley home where they regularly run. Walter Bortz, a longtime geriatrician and proponent of keeping up a healthy active lifestyle, wrote the book, “Dare to Be 100.”

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alloween was approach- story “What Happens When We ing and Dr. Joon Yun All Live to 100?” was explaining why The same issue featured an eshe wanted someone to hack our say by Ezekiel Emanuel, “Why I bodies.

Hope to Die at 75.” Emanuel dis“Every day 150,000 people die misses efforts to extend healthy worldwide and the majority of longevity and equates age with them (are) due to age-related ill- decrepitude, an attitude that lonness,” Yun, 46, said while seated gevity experts including Yun conin the board room of Palo Alto In- sider laughably outdated. vestors LLC, an investment man“I’ve gotten so many emails agement company of which he is from people linking to the story,” president. “We’ve got the technol- Yun groaned. “Somebody should ogy to hack the aging code and start a new magazine called The end aging. Question is not ‘if’ but Pacific. The Atlantic is an old ‘when’ we want it to happen.” way to think of things. Look Yun, a bespectacled physician west; look to the future.” turned investor, is the benefacSix teams of scientists and tor of The Palo Alto Longevity medical researchers from around Prize, a $1 million the country are science competicompeting for the tion aiming to end Longevity Prize’s ‘ We want to make aging by restoring two $500,000 life longer and the body’s homeoawards, the Hohealthier. Imagine static capacity and meostatic Capacpromoting the exity Prize and the being 70 years old tension of a susLongevity Demand as healthy as tained and healthy onstration Prize. lifespan.

The former will a horse.’

The Prize is go to the first – Dr. Joon Yun, the latest in a team to demonspate of anti-agstrate that it can founder, Palo Alto ing efforts being restore homeoLongevity Prize mounted throughstatic capacity of out the Bay Area. an aging mammal Google’s Calico Project has to that of a young adult. The latter gained the most attention be- will go to the first team that can cause of the corporate brand and extend the lifespan of its mamthe impenetrable secrecy sur- mal by 50 percent of acceptable rounding it. The Buck Institute published norms using an apin Marin County was featured proach that restores homeostatic in The Atlantic’s October cover capacity.

Homeostatic capacity refers to the ability of one’s physiology to self-correct and stabilize in response to stressors. Young people typically have a strong homeostatic capacity; it’s what allows their bodies to heal from injuries and recover quickly from illnesses.

Yun and the researchers leading the teams believe that homeostatic capacity erodes with age.

Diabetes, hypertension and other afflictions that correlate with age may be consequences of an aging body’s inability to self-stabilize.

So what if the erosion of homeostatic capacity can be stalled or reversed? Would it end aging as we know it?

“Nobody wants to live another 40 years in bad health,” Yun said.

“We want to make life longer and healthier. Imagine being 70 years old and as healthy as a horse.”

Of course, the ultimate goal is to apply any successful findings by the teams to humans. A 50 percent increase in today’s average lifespan would take today’s baby boomers to around 110 years. The oldest person in recorded history lived to 122. It’s already common to hear that today’s young people will have an average lifespan of 100 years, which would take them to 150 years if the Longevity Demonstration Prize’s results were successfully applied in time.

While Yun would welcome a healthy 150-year lifespan, even that is a baby step compared to what he thinks is, at least theoretically, possible: a healthy lifespan beyond biblical proportions.

A normal 25-year-old has a one in 1,000 chance of dying from outside forces in a given year. If declining homeostatic capacity were not a factor, a 1,000-year healthy lifespan is theoretically achievable. The mortality rate of a healthy 15-year-old is 0.01 percent in a given year, which could theoretically translate to a 10,000-year lifespan.

To be sure, immortality is not the explicit goal of the Prize, but the successful abolition of aging would certainly make death the next target.

“We hope that, if we are successful ... sustained homeostatic capacity will have the consequence of making death a statistic rather than an inevitability,” Yun said.

In that world, people would still die. Externalities like accidents,

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100 plus what?

Local author predicts the benefits and drawbacks of longer life

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mission is “to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.”

“All of this longevity technology will happen, but the question is ‘Will it happen to you? Do you want to be the last generation that only got to live to 80 or part of the first generation that got to live to 150?’” she said, her bright eyes as optimistic as her book.

A 150-year average lifespan would force changes in the economy and even relationships, but according to Arrison they’ll be similar to what society is already seeing, just more dramatic.

“We’ll likely have serial longterm relationships, more changes in friendships, more marriages.

The nuclear family will be less common,” she said.

All the benefits she foresees are centered on choice: more choices for family structures and planning, more choices for career structure, and more economic prosperity.

Of course, a longer lifespan will force challenges on society — the biggest one, according to Arrison, being a “longevity divide.”

“We already see it today. A person in Atherton lives to their mid-80s and a person in East Palo Alto lives to only their mid-60s.

It’s likely that, at least in the short term, when longevity technology hits the market that the divide will increase,” she said. “But I think, as with all other technology, it’ll become cheaper over time until just about everyone can access it if they choose. But I would take all the challenges increased longevity will pose over death and aging and disease any day.”

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her husband quipped dryly. efforts to extend life beyond 120 Unlike Yun, Bortz is doubtful years. The author of “The Roadthat an extended lifespan is pos- map to 100” doesn’t think a book sible through scientific interven- titled “The Roadmap to 150” will tion. ever be written.

“There is no ‘switch’ that can “Not possible. We’ve been be hacked and flipped to stop a species for eons, and the oldaging,” he said. “The decision to est person to have ever lived in live a good lifestyle, to exercise, recorded history is 122. There eat well, and most of all have a are only 120 super-centenarians good mental attitude can make (people who are 110 or older) health persist regardless of age.” worldwide. Why is that? Because According to Bortz, exercise there is a finitude due to entropy,” initiates the exhe said. pression of genes Still, Yun points ‘ Do you want to be that help maintain out that science a healthy physimay break his the last generation ology. He is not way — and posthat only got to live alone in connectsibly in a way ing exercise to more provocative to 80 or part of the healthy longevity. than the idea of first generation that a 1,000-year-old “The science got to live to 150?’ on exercise and person. its effects on “Our cells are – Sonia Arrison, healthy aging are programmed to author, ‘100 Plus’ truly remarkable,” deteriorate and said Dr. Laura die, a process Carstensen, direccalled apoptosis. tor of the Center on Longevity at However, some of these cells Stanford University, a think tank that are programmed to die are focused on “redesigning long mutating and programming out life” and building a culture that their apoptosis genes. Today we supports it. call that phenomenon cancer,” he The Center researches science said. “Cancer cells are essentially and technology that can be used immortal. Today, cancer is conto solve problems facing the aged, sidered one of the worst scourges particularly relating to mental in human history, but what if it acuity, physical mobility and fi- holds the key to persistence rather nancial security. than death?”

Yun does not deny that exercise and good habits contribute onia Arrison, a founder, to maintaining health, but he beacademic adviser, and lieves it can’t go far enough. trustee at Mountain “The problem is that people View’s Singularity University and have been doing that for thou- a member of the Palo Alto Lonsands of years and they are all gevity Prize’s Advisory Board, dead,” Yun said. “The grand has already written the book slam would be to maintain a Bortz thought would never be young person’s capacity, and I’m written. “100 Plus” is about what not sure if we could accomplish society will be like when, not if, that through only conventional people live to an average of 150 behavioral methods including years. (See sidebar.) exercise and a balanced diet. To “I wrote the book because I truly restore homeostatic capacity want people to be aware of the would require an intervention at technology that is making its way the programmatic level.” and not to be complacent,” said But Bortz is deeply skeptical of Arrison, 42, whose company’s

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Numerous photos in Walter and Ruth Anne Bortz’s home display the couple’s active lifestyle. The pair have run many marathons together, although Ruth Anne has had to slow down following hipreplacement surgery.

n her book “100 Plus,” SoThe environment would bennia Arrison points to an im- efit from the increased wealth pending wave of technol- resulting from longevity; she ogy — including gene therapy points out that as economies and tissue engineering — that, modernize they go through a she hopes, will make radically period of damaging the enviextended, ronment, but healthy lifesas they bepans as matcome wealthter-of-fact as ier they spend getting a flu more on enshot. vironmental The foundprotection and er of Mounrehabilitation. tain View’s Innovation Si ng u l a r it y would also University, an increase, she e ducat iona l predicts. Arcompany that rison points focuses on the Author Sonia Arrison explores out that innopotential of the implications of longer life vators seem to cutting-edge in her book, “100 Plus.” peak in their t e ch nolog y, production imagines how a society accus- in their 40s and 50s; extending tomed to 150-year lifespans lifespan could allow geniuses to would look and behave, and her continue making contributions book attempts to serve as a call to society. to action to start preparing for it.

The potentially negative conSo what will this future look sequences she imagines are like? The short answer: like to- also things already seen today. day but even more so. For exam- Diseases will decline but menple, marriages and first children tal health problems will persist, will happen even later than they making psychiatry a future do now. Couples will have fewer “growth industry,” she writes. children, but there will be more Generational conflicts in the generations of families. There workplace will be deeper and will be more marriages and di- more widespread. vorces. The prevalence of the Arrison spends a chapter on traditional nuclear family will what she thinks is, and will be, continue declining. the biggest problem: the “lonMore “life phases” will gevity divide.” The average life emerge. Scholars, Arrison expectancy of a person in Mowrites, have coined the term naco, one of the richest coun“adult-lescence,” which denotes tries in the world, is 90 years. a period between adolescence The average life expectancy of and adulthood (one’s 20s and a person in Angola, one of the early 30s). With a radically ex- poorest, is only 38. One country tended lifespan, Arrison writes, that breaks from the correlation more phases will emerge be- between wealth and life expectween categories that were pre- tancy is the U.S., which, with viously strictly defined. a 78-year average lifespan, is Arrison believes that, given ranked 51st in the world despite more time, people will become its massive wealth. The reamore concerned with how to live son may have something to do a good life. Increased longev- with its longevity (and wealth) ity and, possibly, the indefinite divide: A wealthy Asian-Amerpostponement of death may ac- ican woman in New Jersey has tually make religions more im- an average life-expectancy of portant, but only if they change 91 years while a poor Nativetheir focus from death, punish- American man in South Dakota ment and the afterlife to more has an average life-expectancy moral and spiritual guidance. of only 58 years.

Economically, she writes, Arrison laments the longev“health brings wealth.” Indeed, ity divide but argues longevity being healthy for longer means technology should be brought people can work for longer and to market by private enterprisaccrue more compensation. She es. Her libertarian prescription points to economic data show- for the distribution of longevity ing a relationship between lon- technology would, she admits, gevity and economic growth. increase the longevity divide, at Two countries with a similar least in the short term. The rich, economy but with different who would be the primary inlife expectancies can expect to vestors in the technology, would accrue significantly different be the first to access it. When amounts of wealth. the technology comes to market, Additionally, she claims lon- it would likely be prohibitively ger lifespans correlate with low- expensive for the vast majority er fertility, which may mitigate of people. Wealth would, in fact, the risk of over-population. continue to bring health. n www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • January 9, 2015 • Page 23

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Dr. Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford University Center on Longevity, stands among the university’s pillars on Jan. 5.

don’t find such efforts even interesting.

“I study motivation, and I think a lot of human motivation comes from the idea of a bounded life. If we were limitless there wouldn’t be any urgency. I think death is what makes life precious. We have to do what we can because we don’t have all the time in the world,” she said.

These qualms are fine and good to Yun and Arrison. For them it’s about choice.

“We are not proscribing this for anybody; all we are doing is providing the option,” Yun said.

Arrison writes as much in her Kenneth Fields is a poet and Stanford professor who believes life is book while being decidedly opbeautiful because it is transient. posed to any government involvement (outside of urging the FDA competing for the Palo Alto Lon- Aphrodite can’t take these pow- to ease its approval processes) gevity Prize will realize its ulti- erful, human emotions person- in funding and developing antimate goals of a radically longer ally or seriously because she is aging technology, fearing that it health-span. immortal.” could ultimately lead to govern“We thought long and hard on “It’s questionable whether ment-mandated eugenics. She calling ourselves the Center on death is ‘evil’,” said Huw Duffy, a believes the free market will do a Longevity rather than the Center second-year doctoral philosophy good enough job distributing any for Longevity. I’m largely on the student at Stanford. “You could longevity-increasing technology. fence about increasing lifespan. I say that death is bad for many or For his part, Yun finds moral see a real need for improving the most people without concluding support for having a choice in poquality of our lives and accom- it would be good if we did not die etry, particularly Dylan Thomas’s modating the years we’ve been after a couple hundred or thou- “Do not go gentle into that good given,” she said. sand years or ever.” night.”

Nonetheless, Carstensen said Duffy turns to “The Makropu“Thomas, pained from the she believes the efforts of the los Case,” in which Bernard Wil- death of his father, rages against six teams could lead to discover- liams wrote about why immortal- death. It is a call to action. I think ies that will make healthy aging ity would be unappealing. when people take death to be easier.

“There are two alternative out- inevitable they create stories for comes of immortality or a radi- themselves that console them and ilicon Valley technologists cally long lifespan: extreme bore- make it seem acceptable,” Yun are neither the first nor dom to the point of not wanting said. only ones to joust at aging to live or loss of identity or psyBut for all Yun’s and Arrison’s and death. Philosophers and writ- chic connection with your earlier moral fervor, the notion of choice ers of all times and places have self,” Duffy explained. “It’s not at without guarantee of equal acdeeply considered the condition all clear that we would still want cess is unsatisfying to Stanford and implications of decay and to go on being the same person University Assistant Professor of mortality. The great Irish poet for much more than 100 years.”

Philosophy Jorah Dannenberg.

William Butler Yeats, famous According to Williams, in “This may start out as the sort for having written his poems late order to have the desire to live of thing anyone will be able to in life, is often quoted as say- for another lifetime, one would decide to opt-out of if he or she ing, “Sex and death are the only have to radically doesn’t want to things that can interest a serious change one’s do it. But when mind.” identity at the enough people de‘ Death is what In the present day, poet and most fundamental cide to do somemakes life Stanford professor Kenneth level. That may thing like this, it Fields has just completed a new sustain a meanwill result in all precious. We have collection of poetry that consid- ingful life, but the sorts of social and to do what we can ers aging. The 75-year-old bears idea of how differeconomic presthe physical marks of a tumul- ent a person could sure on anyone because we don’t tuous life lacking in both health be from who he or who may have have all the time in and boredom, which brings to she is now should reservations. the world.’ mind Hunter S. Thompson’s quip lead to questions “Look at smartabout how the body of someone of why a person phones,” he said.

– Linda Carstensen, who lived a full life should arrive, should care about “They certainly director, Center thoroughly used up, at the grave. a future self stayhave an upside, on Longevity “Aging is the diminishing win- ing alive in the but the fact that dow of time between when you first place. they’re nearly feel like urinating and when you Carstensen and ubiquitous in actually are urinating,” Fields Bortz share in the skepticism. certain circles generates certain wryly remarked during a po“You are going to die; get used powerful expectations that are etry reading on campus. How- to it,” Bortz said. “All of us hate difficult or impossible for any ever, while he would welcome the idea of oblivion. It’s antitheti- one person to cancel. The choice restored physical health, he is not cal to our sense of self. But I take to significantly extend one’s life sure he would want an extended solace in the fact that when you strikes me as that kind of choice, life, much less the abolishment of die, you leave behind ripples as except the stakes are so much natural death. the atoms in your molecules are higher. The social and economic “Things are beautiful because transferred back to the world. All effects of others’ choices will they are transient and don’t last of life is energy transfer, from the make it hard or even impossible forever,” he said. “I’m reminded sun to everything else. I think 100 for those who might really prefer of Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite. years is plenty of time.” not to do it.” n Sappho has had her heart broken Said Carstensen: “We humans Freelance writer Joshua Aland asks the immortal goddess have been searching for the Foun- varez can be emailed at joshua.

Aphrodite for help. And Aph- tain of Youth since we realized alvarez1189@gmail.com. rodite is amused by her. ‘Who we are mortal. We’ve gone from is it this time that’s broken your going on sailing expeditions to About the cover: heart?’ she disinterestedly asks the laboratory, but the aim reIllustration by Lili Cao. Sappho. It makes the point that mains the same. To be honest, I Laura Watt/Courtesy Kenneth Fields

reason to believe society and institutions would catch up to yet (continued from previous page) another doubling of longevity in a timely manner, which would only expectancy nearly doubled from dramatically compound today’s around 40 years in the beginning challenges. of the 20th century to nearly 80 “We continue to live our lives by the millennium. This created as if our life expectancy is what generational conflicts that culmi- it was before. Our education sysnated in the 1960s and ’70s. tem still ends for the majority of The teenagers and college people before reaching age 23. students of 1968 were the first “Working for 40 years, then generation to live under an “oli- retiring for another 30 years, is garchy of the old.” becoming ecoThe counterculnomically un‘ The decision to live ture was, in many sustainable as ways, the young well as damaging a good lifestyle, attempting to our well-being,” to exercise, eat shift the balance Carstensen said. well, and most of of power away The health care from their parents system is what is all have a good and grandparents. most in need of mental attitude can In a demographic dramatic change. light, the young “Recent scimake health persist were rebelling entific advances regardless of age.’ against the conhave been largely sequences of exabout solving – Dr. Walter Bortz, tended longevity. acute diseases not physician, Stanford Ca rstensen, chronic diseases, University of the Center on which are the ones Longevity, who we are now facwas a teenager during that period ing,” she said. “Our system and in American history, remembers institutions are organized to atthe generational animosity. tack separate diseases rather than “At Woodstock we considered addressing what seems to be the old people, and at that time it was underlying cause: unhealthy ag30 and up, to be oppressive. We ing.” felt we had the answers and that Displayed on a shelf next to her we would be moral and fix the desk is a board game based on problems. As boomers aged we Hasbro’s Game of Life but with went off and did other things and a few alterations: Instead of life kind of lost that. It would be in- beginning in school and ending teresting to me if boomers came in a retirement home, it begins at to be the change agents for lon- birth and ends at death. It’s also gevity, which would be great and structured to not be a race to the ironic,” she said. finish; in some parts it benefits For Carstensen, lifespan gains players to take longer routes. made in the last century are more “Preparing for a long, stable, than just a biological phenom- fruitful life does not begin in old enon. age; it begins at the very earliest “Longevity is one of the great- stages,” Carstensen said. est cultural achievements in huThe point is not just rhetorical; man history,” she said. there are more pediatricians than However, the achievement has geriatricians associated with the outpaced institutions and cultur- Center on Longevity. al evolution, which, having been However, the Center is not invery slow to adapt, could lead terested in extending life, and to various crises. There’s little Carstensen doubts the teams

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As Eurydice, Sarah Moser (left) is torn between her husband, Orpheus (Wes Gabrillo, center), and her father (Scott Solomon, right). ocks that whisper and taunt, rain that falls inside an elevator and letters written by the dead: These are among the symbols populating playwright Sarah Ruhl’s modern myth, “Eurydice.” A re-imagining of an ancient tale, the 2007 play takes an intimate look at loss and grief, family bonds and the complexity of marriage. This weekend, Palo Alto Players presents this haunting, whimsical take on one of Western culture’s most enduring stories.

The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, on which Ruhl’s play is based, tells of a young woman who dies tragically on her wedding day. The story focuses on the agony of her widower, Orpheus the musician, who travels to the underworld in hopes of retrieving his lost love. Hades, the god of the underworld, is impressed by Orpheus’s beautiful singing and grants him permission to bring Eurydice back to the land of the living, as long as he resists the urge to look back at her until they reach the light. Too early, Orpheus turns his head to see his wife disappear from him forever.

In MacArthur “Genius Award”-winning Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary remake, it’s not Orpheus’s journey to the underworld that takes center stage, but Eurydice’s, and her grief stems from more complex sources than just the loss of her husband. Maybe the greatest amendment Ruhl makes to the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is the addition of a third central character: Eurydice’s dead father, whose presence in the underworld adds new dramatic tension to the storyline. Joyful at being reunited with her father yet sorrowful about abandoning her new husband, Eurydice is forced to choose not just between life and death, but between the two most important men in her life.

Ruhl wrote “Eurydice” shortly before her own marriage, and director Jeffrey Lo said the play can be seen as a letter to her own late father, who did not live to see her wed.

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Palo Alto Players tackle modern play based on ancient myth

by Elizabeth Schwyzer

THEATER REVIEW What: Palo Alto Players’ “Eurydice,” by Sarah Ruhl Where: Lucie Stern Theater, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Saturday, Jan. 17, to Sunday, Feb. 1, with shows at 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; preview on Friday, Jan. 16, at 8 p.m.

Cost: $31-$45, with some discounts available Info: Go to paplayers.org or call 650-329-0891.

“There’s a beautiful line in Ruhl’s play when Eurydice says weddings are for fathers and daughters,” Lo said. “A wedding represents a time when a daughter is no longer married to her father.”

This love triangle between the young man, the young woman and her father lends Ruhl’s “Eurydice” a distinctly Freudian tone, and there’s something undeniably postmodern about seeing this drama unfold from the feminine perspective. At the same time, Ruhl’s play remains built on an ancient story that transcends cultures: Japanese, Mayan, Indian and Sumerian mythology all feature similar tales of women who venture into the underworld and the difficul-

ties they face in trying to cross back.

In researching plays for Palo Alto Players’ 2014/15 season, Artistic Director Patrick Klein was drawn to “Eurydice” for what he called the play’s “amazing poetic language and theatricality,” as well as for its accessibility.

“It’s a deeply relatable play: for parents, children and anyone who has suffered grief,” Klein said. “It’s about life, love, loss and language. Everyone will walk away moved in some way — I’m sure of that.”

The production is recommended for audience members age 12 and up, in large part because its emphasis on the lyrical rather than the literal would leave most younger viewers in the dark. At the same time, that reliance on symbolism and allegory are what lend the play its emotional power. Ruhl is known for her masterful and creative approach to language, and in “Eurydice,” she explores the boundaries of verbal communication, pushing language to its limits.

Actress Sarah Moser, who plays Eurydice, said she was drawn to the role because of her admiration for Ruhl’s writing, particularly the “poetry and playfulness” of her script, as well as the playwright’s way of using dialogue to evoke a world where the ordinary rules of conversation no longer apply.

“The underworld has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to it,” Moser noted. “There really is no subtext to the language.

Every character says exactly what he or she feels most fully and forcefully at that moment. It helps fuel the sense that this is an epic tale of mythic proportion.”

Aside from Ruhl’s unusual use of language, one of the aspects of the play that appealed most to Klein as an artistic director was the fact that the playwright leaves the physical setting open to interpretation.

“It’s essentially a sandbox for design,” Klein said of the play. “You can do anything you want with it.” Set designer Janny Coté has created a two-story set in order to simulta(continued on page 26)

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Stone and Loud Stone and notes In both the original myth and that these characters might be neously represent the world of the in Ruhl’s adaptation, entering played “as though they are nasty living above and the underworld the underworld requires cross- children at a birthday party.” below. ing the river Lethe, which erasLo spoke of the importance “We’re still working with the es all memories including the of movement to the production City of Palo Alto to get the rain knowledge of language. Thus, and particularly to the chorus, elevator approved,” Klein said, entire sections of the play rely explaining that Trout and the alluding to one of the few specif- on movement and gesture, rather actors have worked to develop a Ar“We’re ts Center Palo Alto Weekly ics called for inCantor the script. than- speech, to convey meaning. “mechanical, daily feel to the unalso sending the stage out into the None of the actors in this12/12/14 pro- derworld that’s very specific and 12/19/14, 1/16, 2/20/15 Issues DUE: house a little bit, like a runway, duction are trained dancers, but stylized.” so the audience can be closer to choreographer Megan Trout has Besides the three leads and the action of the show.” been brought in to work with the chorus, the only other character in Ad Size: 5.75” x 4.675” Palo Alto Players’ production cast, particularly with the chorus Ruhl’s play is A Nasty Interesting will also use lighting and sound of three stones who represent the Man, who below ground becomes

The Lord of the Underworld. In both guises, he’s a seducer who tries to pull Eurydice away from those she truly loves.

For actor Wes Gabrillo, who plays Orpheus, it’s love that forms the central theme of the play: young romance, familial devotion and even self-acceptance.

“It’s the old story of ‘opposites attract,’” he noted of Orpheus and Eurydice’s courtship. “But then for much of the play, Orpheus is without Eurydice in the physical sense, and his love for her grows as he learns more about himself.

He even begins to use Eurydice’s way of communicating through words instead of just through music.”

Moser agreed: “I am really intrigued by the very specific and very different kinds of love we see in this play and how they seem to tug at Eurydice from all directions.”

As for the most crucial moment of the classical myth, when Orpheus breaks the rules and looks back at his wife before she has left the underworld, Ruhl has made a subtle but significant change there, too. In her rendition, it’s Eurydice who calls out to her husband just before she reaches the threshold, causing him to turn.

Just why she does so — is she simply afraid, or has she made a last-minute decision not to leave her father? — isn’t made entirely clear in the script. Gabrillo cited this scene as his favorite to play.

“There’s this moment where

Robert Rauschenberg at Kennedy Space Center with Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in background, July 15, 1969.

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Eurydice

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she says, ‘Orpheus!’ and I say, ‘You startled me,’ and then we turn back to back, and walk apart ... until she can’t remember,” he said.

Gabrillo likened this dramatic moment to “trying to pull someone back into the reality you both share — maybe an elderly loved one or someone you’re in a relationship with, where they’re slipping away and you’re reaching for ways to pull them back to you.”

Gabrillo credited director Lo with guiding the cast to discover the personal resonance in scenes like this one.

For Lo himself, the most compelling aspect of the play is the parent/child relationship.

“Early on in the rehearsal process, before we were even on our feet, we sat around the table reading the script and sharing stories,” he said. “Although the words of the text don’t incorporate those conversations directly, I think there’s a tenderness in how the actors interact on stage because we’ve opened up to each other.”

Lo also noted that the love between Eurydice and her father is unique because they’ve endured a separation, then met again.

“There’s something so beautiful about characters who get to reunite after death,” Lo said, “because they know what it’s like to lose each other.” n Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly.com.

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328 LOMITA DRIVE • STANFORD, CA • 94305 • 6 5 0 - 7 2 3 - 4 1 7 7 • M U S E U M . S T A N F O R D . E D U This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Works in this exhibition are on loan from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and a private collection.

We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition from the Cantor Arts Center’s Halperin Exhibitions Fund and the Contemporary Collectors Circle.

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“[O]ne of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing.” - Robert Hass

Sarah Moser will play the title character in Palo Alto Players’ production of “Eurydice,” a modern twist on an ancient story.

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Triumph of the underdogs Josh Davis discusses his latest book, ‘Spare Parts’

by Michael Berry

Sebastian Mlynarski

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ournalist Joshua Davis knows firsthand what it feels like to be the underdog.

Back when he was a 129-pound data entry clerk with a Stanford diploma, even his friends were baffled when he set out to compete in the lightweight division of the U.S. National Armwrestling Championship.

Well, Davis showed them and all the rest of the doubters. He finished in fourth place (in a field of four) and went on to the world championship in Poland. From there, he embarked on a series of adventures that led to a career as a magazine writer and the publication in 2005 of “The Underdog: How I Survived the World’s Most Outlandish Competitions.” Now a contributing editor at Wired and the co-founder of Epic Magazine, a purveyor of long-form, evergreen journalism suitable for adaptation for film and television, Davis is the author of the new non-fiction title, “Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream.”

Joshua Davis will appear in conversation with Wired magazine features editor Mark Robinson at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Reached by phone, Davis spoke fondly of “The Underdog” and his days of sumo wrestling, bullfighting and sneaking into Iraq at the start of the war.

“Fundamentally, that book is about how I became a journalist. I didn’t necessarily think of it that way when I was writing it, but now that I look back on it, it really chronicles how I came to

be who I am.”

Despite contributing to the New Yorker and having his work anthologized in various “best-of-theyear” journalism collections, Davis is still intimately familiar with underdoggedness. In fact, it’s the subject of his new book.

The genesis of “Spare Parts” stretches back to 2004, when Davis received an odd, unusually formatted press release about an award-winning robotics team at a high school in Arizona. The missive was sufficiently intriguing for him to hang onto it for a month before calling Carl Hayden Community High School in West Phoenix.

He ended up speaking with Fredi Lajvardi, a science instructor and one of the teachers in charge of the school’s robotics program.

Davis learned that the robotics team consisted of four Mexicanborn Latino teenagers — Oscar Vazquez, Lorenzo Santillan, Cristian Arcega and Luis Aranda — three of whom were undocu-

Joshua Davis, contributing editor at Wired magazine and author of “Spare Parts,” will speak at Kepler’s Books on Tuesday, Jan. 13. mented and lived in fear of being deported. Working from an impoverished school without a swimming pool and located hundreds of miles from the ocean, the boys, Lajvardi and science teacher Allan Cameron had nevertheless decided to enter the third annual Marine Advanced Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition.

Sponsored by NASA and the Navy and held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the event featured teams from the likes of MIT, with budgets in the five figures and grants from Exx-

on-Mobil. With less than a grand to work with, the Carl Hayden team had to scrounge the parts they needed and rely on their own ingenuity to fix unforeseen setbacks. Dubbed “Stinky,” due to the powerful odor of the glue that held its PVC piping together, their ROV ultimately outperformed its well-equipped competition in various underwater tasks.

It sounds like a scenario for a feel-good Hollywood movie, and the story has indeed been adapted for the screen by director Sean McNamara. George Lopez portrays “Fredi Cameron” as part of a cast that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Marisa Tomei and Esai Morales. “Spare Parts” the movie opens Jan. 16.

Although it serves as the climax for the movie, the championship in Santa Barbara was not the end of the story. Davis didn’t want to conclude the book on a single moment of triumph.

He said, “It becomes a much richer story and a much more important story when you look at the fact that the second-place winners, the students from MIT, went on to great jobs, but the kids who placed first struggled enormously and in many cases failed to achieve the American Dream.”

Davis’ book chronicles the teammates’ fortunes over the ensuing decades, which include a heartbreaking struggle against a bureaucracy that has little idea of how to deal with exceptional individuals

who don’t fit within the established immigration system.

Part of the reason Davis wanted to write the book was to encourage a realistic conversation about immigration.

“In the reporting I’ve done over the past decade, immigrants are here not to be criminals,” he said.

“They’re here to work. Not only to work, but work very hard. And that is a great, good thing for America.”

At one point, Davis said, he questioned whether a school like Carl Hayden, with so many other challenges, really needed a robotics team.

“Fredi said something that still resonates with me: ‘Nobody wants to sit down and look at a workbook.

Nobody learns that way.’”

Davis explained that Fredi’s fundamental point was, “You have to inspire the students. That’s why you offer them a challenge that may seem quixotic. Even if they don’t win, you’ve at least broadened their horizons, and that’s worth an immense amount.” n Freelance writer Mike Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@ mindspring.com.

What: Author Joshua Davis in conversation with Mark Robinson Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: Tuesday, Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free Info: Go to tinyurl.com/mlkup88 or call 650-324-4321

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Inspirations

a guide to the spiritual community Stanford Memorial Church University Public Worship Sunday, January 11, 10:00 am Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann "Beyond Resolutions and Hangovers" Featuring music by Memorial Church Choir and University Organist, Robert Huw Morgan

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Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 or email byoc@paweekly.com

Exhibition ‘Silence’

Photographs and found objects, scraps of old newspaper and magazine clippings: All these and more serve as materials for collage and assemblage artists.

Starting next week, Palo Alto’s loose collective of more than 60 artists known as the “drop-in collage group” will present their work at the Palo Alto Art Center (1313 Newell Road). The show is titled “Silence,” and group members went to great lengths to explore the theme, from experimenting with meditation to studying deafness and sign language. The resulting works express their discoveries in a wide variety of media and forms.

Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved,” will speak at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills on Saturday, Jan. 24.

ing them as examples of the way forward. He’ll discuss both Generation Food Project and “Stuffed and Starved” at his Hidden Villa appearance.

Admission to both events is free, though registration is required. Go to hiddenvilla.org or call 650-9499702. For more on Patel, go to rajpatel.org. For those interested in purchasing the book, Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park is offering a 15 percent discount.

Diane Kochenburg’s “Silenced” is among the collages that will be exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center starting Jan. 15.

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Worth a Look

‘Musical Journeys’ Hoping to instill the next generation with a love of classical music? Look no further than Frank Lévy.

The acclaimed pianist has enjoyed an international career, from studies with Emmanuel Ax at The Julliard School to recitals at Carnegie Hall. This Sunday, Lévy comes to Palo Alto with a special program for children. “Musical Journeys with Frank Lévy: Animals, Seasons & Other Musical Fantasies” invites young listeners on an adventure. Though the program is designed for children, it’s no snooze for grown-ups, who’ll get a chance to hear the worldclass musician play works by Aaron Copland, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and others.

“Musical Journeys” will take place at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center (3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto) on Sunday, Jan. 11, at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Go to paloaltojcc.org or call 650-223-8664. n — Elizabeth Schwyzer

Among the works on display will be Dianne Kochenburg’s collage, “Silenced,” in which the body of a bird is splayed across a page announcing obituaries, as well as Marilyn Proffitt’s “Silent Spring,” a three-dimensional work in which bare white branches sprout from the pages of a book.

The show was organized as a response to a larger Art Center exhibition, “Hear This!,” which takes sound as its subject and opens to the public on Saturday, Jan. 17.

“Silence” will be on view at the Palo Alto Art Center from Jan. 15 through March 24. The Center is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For more information, go to tinyurl.com/lvxy6et or call 650-329-2366.

The drop-in collage group meets Wednesdays from 10 a.m-1 p.m in Studio B at the Art Center. No registration is required; the fee is $5 per meeting.

Book

What’s wrong with our system of growing, distributing and consuming food? And how can we make that system more sustainable and just? These questions lie at the heart of “Stuffed and Starved,” the 2008 book by food activist and academic Raj Patel.

On Thursday, Jan. 15, at 6:15 p.m., Hidden Villa organic farm in Los Altos Hills will host a public book discussion on “Stuffed and Starved.” One week later, on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 4 p.m., Patel will speak at Hidden Villa.

In his book, Patel shares the results of his investigation into what he sees as an international crisis in which more than one billion people suffer from malnourishment while another billion battle obesity. The solution, he suggests, is to wrest power away from the corporate food monopoly and to regain “food sovereignty.”

Patel’s latest undertaking, Generation Food Project, draws together stories of sustainable farming and harvesting, from Japan to Malawi to Cuba, present-

Photo courtesy of Frank Lévy

‘Stuffed and Starved’

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Eating Out

Veronica Weber

Stacy Sullivan, owner of the Sweet Shop in Los Altos, says the store serves as a community gathering place.

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Los Altos’ neighborhood Sweet Shop supports schools

Veronica Weber

The Sweet Shop menu includes hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookies: the perfect treat for a chilly winter’s day.

by Elena Kadvany tacy Sullivan has fond memories of visiting a now-defunct neighborhood market during her years as a student at Terman Middle School and Gunn High School in the 1960s. During lunch or after school, she’d hop on the bike path and ride a couple of miles to grab some candy or a drink at Foodland, which was just a few steps up the road from the path’s Los Altos entrance.

Foodland shut down around 2000 and stood vacant for years in the sleepy North Los Altos neighborhood. Sullivan, now a married mother of two who lives two streets away, was walking by one day with her family and thought, “‘We should just redo this, do a whole revamp and open this as something really cool for the community.’”

And thus, Sweet Shop — a quaint, wood-shingled cottage whose interior walls are lined with candy and painted sayings like, “Life is sweet!” — was born. Sullivan, a longtime Googler who is now the company’s “chief culture officer” (CCO), opened the shop in 2009 hoping it would become a true community gathering space, rather than simply a popular cafe that she would reap the profits from. All Sweet Shop proceeds go to local public schools, including Sullivan’s alma maters in Palo Alto and the Los Altos schools her

sons attend. The shop makes donations a few times a year, often putting the money toward technology-focused educational efforts.

“It’s a nominal amount, but what’s nice is it’s kind of a big deal for the schools,” Sullivan said. “It’s more just the philosophy — we’re not doing this to make more money; we’re doing it because it’s a really fun, really great and really rewarding way to appreciate the community, which we really love.”

Traces of that attitude are everywhere in the rustic, whimsical shop.

The employees who ring you up or make your Verve Coffee Roasters latte are often Gunn or Los Altos High students and are on a firstname basis with some customers. A note on the tip jar at the front counter reminds you that all tips will go straight to local schools. A “Little Free Library” sits out front; customers and passersby are encouraged to swap out the books with their own.

But back to the sweets. One large wall is dedicated to candies by the pound, with rows of teal-colored shelves stocked with glass jars full of with traditional confections: M&Ms, peach rings and sour gummies. All candy is $8.99 per pound.

Sprinkled throughout the shop are more high-end, carefully curated goodies: San Francisco’s TCHO and Poco Dolce chocolates, Lindt Lindor truffles and Twenty-Four Blackbirds choco-

Sweet Shop 994 Los Altos Ave., Los Altos 650-941-7467 sweetshoplosaltos.com Hours: Closed Mondays Tuesday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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late (handmade in Santa Barbara).

The shop also serves frozen yogurt, breakfast sandwiches and panini. A small selection of baked goods are delivered daily from local bakeries including Icing on the Cake in Los Gatos and Kelly’s French Bakery in Santa Cruz. On a recent morning, there were buttery scones, cinnamon morning buns, mini pecan pies and perfectly latticed strawberry rhubarb tartelettes. Breakfast is served all day and lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Breakfast comes in the form of a “croissantwich” (fresh croissant with two organic eggs and melted cheddar cheese, $4.50) and an egg white “skinny” bowl (two fluffy organic egg whites, spinach, sundried tomatoes and generous dollops of goat cheese and warm, flavorful pesto on top; $4.25). Lunch is slightly more extensive, with six types of panini ($4 to $5.50) and organic tomato soup ($3.75 for a bowl). The panini are both kid- and (continued on page 32)

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Through January 2, 402 donors have contributed $ 197,360. With match, $347,360 has been raised for the Holiday Fund.

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9 Anonymous........................ $16,395 Anna Welke ................................... 50 Gwen Barry ..................................... * Ellen & Mike Turbow..................... 250 Earlyne Mund................................... * Sherry Brown................................... * Kay Sabin ........................................ * Timothy Collins ......................... 6,000 Kenneth E. Bencala & Sally O’Neil .. 100 Michael & Ruth Lowy .................... 100 Jean & John Tang ............................. * Merele McClure ........................... 250 Jonathan MacQuitty................... 1,000 Werner Graf ..................................... * Kay & Don Remsen .......................... * Claire & Ed Lauing ....................... 250 Susan Osofsky............................... 50 Elgin Lee ..................................... 250 Alan Wachtel.................................... * Patricia Bubenik ........................... 500 Shailan Shah ............................... 100 Linda Selden .............................. 200 Orumchian Kim ............................ 250 Jill Bicknell ...................................... * Kathleen & Tony Hughes ........... 1,000 Leannah Hunt .............................. 200 Marc Igler & Jennifer Cray ............... 50 Elizabeth Shepard ............................ * Reed & Judith Content ................. 200 Marion Lewenstein ....................... 500 Bob &b Jan Hermsen ....................... * Bob Barrett & Linda Atkinson........ 100 Marjan Wilkes .............................. 300 Carroll Harrington......................... 100 Carol Leonard ................................ 50 Anna Messner ............................. 250 Teresa Lau .................................... 25 Cynthia Costell............................... 50 Rick & Lisa Barr ........................... 150 Eileen Brennan ............................ 250 Carolyn Melena .............................. 75 Richard Ellson.............................. 100 Morton Maser.............................. 150 Jean Doble ...................................... * Charles Katz ................................ 500 Colleen Anderson & Jim Lobdell ...... 250 Madeline Wong .............................. 50 Albert Russell .............................. 250 Fran Codispoti & Ken Schroeder ... 500 Jane Holland.................................... * Steve & Noel Beitler ..................... 100 Ed & Linda DeMeo ....................... 100 Glenn & Lorna Affleck................... 100 Marianne & John Bowers .............. 200 Vicky Blake .................................. 200 Herbert Fischgrund ...................... 150 Stuart & Carol Hansen ................. 100 Susan Bartalo & David Fischer ..... 100 Jeremy Platt & Sondra Murphy .......... * Gavin & Tricia Christensen ................ * Don & Dee Price .............................. * Jim & Nancy Baer............................. * Denise Savoie & Darrell Duffie .......... *

36 Anonymous ..................... 113,790 Betsy & Nick Clinch ...................... 250 Dr. Roger and Mary Jackman ............ * Jacqueline Reynolds-Rush ............ 200 Tony & Jan DiJulio ............................ * Joan Norton..................................... * Jean & Charles Thompson .............. 50 Ellie & Dick Mansfield ...................... * Theodore & Frances Jenkins ........... 50 Luca & Mary Cafiero ........................ * Richard Baumgartner & Elizabeth Salzer ..................... 300 Anne Talbott ................................ 300 Diane & Brandy Sikic........................ * Irene Schwartz................................. * Helen Feinberg ......................... 2,000 Jack & Susan Thomas ...................... * Veronica Tincher .......................... 100 Bryan Wilson ............................... 100 William Macrae ................................ * Elisabeth Seaman ........................ 100 Living in Balance .............................. * Sandra Slater .................................. * Daniel Cox ................................... 200 Weil Family .................................. 250 Lorrin Koran M.D. .......................... 50 Mary Lorey ...................................... * David Wells ................................... 50 Robert & Betsy Gamburd.................. * Anne & Don Vermeil ......................... * Sandra & Scott Pearson ............... 500 Bjorn & Michele Liencres........... 1,000 Lorraine Macchello........................... * Ken & Michele Dauber ................. 500 Amy Harris & Joss Geiduschek ..... 100 Jack & Martha McLaughlin ............... * Barbara & Charles Stevens............... * Patrick & Emily Radtke .............. 2,000 Margaret & Les Fisher .................. 100 Marjorie Giles .............................. 300 David & Karen Backer .................. 250 Laura Simeone .............................. 50 Noble & Lorraine Hancock ................ * Martha Shirk ............................... 500 Ellmann Family............................. 100 Dorsey and Katherine Bass .......... 300 Faith Braff ................................... 500 Wendy Sinton .............................. 100 Victor & Norma Hesterman ............... * William & Sally Hewlett.............. 2,000 Edward Kanazawa ............................ * Donald & Adele Langendorf .......... 200 Ellen Lillington ............................... 75 Jean M. Colby .................................. * Chris & Beth Martin ......................... * Lawrence Naiman ........................ 100 Tom & Patricia Sanders .................... * Dorothy Saxe ................................... * Roger Smith ................................ 300 Marian Adams ............................. 100 Brigid Barton ............................... 400 Lucy Berman ............................ 1,000 Harriet & Gerald Berner .................... * Roy & Carol Blitzer ........................... * John & Olive Borgsteadt ................... * Linda & Steve Boxer......................... * Larry Breed ................................. 100 Bruce F. Campbell ..................... 2,000 Mr. George Cator ....................... 300 Ted and Ginny Chu ........................... * Keith Clarke..................................... * Constance Crawford ......................... * Theodore and Cathy Dolton .......... 350 Eugene & Mabel Dong ................. 200 Tom & Ellen Ehrlich ..................... 300 David & Diane Feldman ................ 750 Bonnie Packer ............................. 100 Hans & Judith Steiner .................. 100 Harry & Susan Hartzell .................... * Carolyn & Tony Tucher ...................... * Marc & Ragni Pasturel ................. 200 Tony & Priscilla Marzoni.................... *

In Memory Of Tinney Family ............................... 500 Clara & Seb Abel.............................. * Ivy & Irving Rubin ......................... 150 Helen Rubin................................. 150 Anna & Max Blanker..................... 150 Don Rush .................................... 100 Mary Fran & Joe Scroogs.............. 100 Greg Brown...................................... * Frank & Jean Crist.......................... 50 Edward & Elizabeth Buurma.............. *

In Honor Of Jill Caddes................................... 100 Scott & Polly Caddes.................... 100 Hayley Caddes ............................. 100 Jake Caddes................................ 100 Garrett Caddes ............................ 100

Tom & Patricia Sanders .................... * Robert & Connie Loarie .................... * Sallie & Jay Whaley ...................... 100 Eric Richert.................................. 100 Jerry and Linda Elkind .................. 250 Leif & Sharon Erickson ................. 250 Russell Evarts ................................. * Solon Finkelstein ......................... 150 Annette Isaacson ......................... 100 Hoda Epstein ................................... * Chittra Chaivorapol....................... 400 Arden King..................................... 20 Marie Earl & Peter Skinner............ 100 John & Florine Galen ........................ * Greg & Penny Gallo ...................... 500 Betty Gerard ................................ 100 Dena Goldberg............................. 250 Margot Goodman ............................ * Lynda & Richard Greene ............... 300 Eric and Elaine Hahn ........................ * Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak ... 500

The Havern Family..................... 5,000 Walt and Kay Hays ........................... * Joe and Nancy Huber ....................... * Jon & Julie Jerome ........................... * Michael & Marcia Katz ................. 200 Sue Kemp ................................... 250 Christina Kenrick....................... 1,000 Michael & Frannie Kieschnick ........... * Hal & Iris Korol ................................ * Tony & Judy Kramer.......................... * The Kroymann Family ................... 250 Patricia M. Levin .......................... 100 Steve and Nancy Levy .................. 500 Mandy Lowell ............................... 100 Gwen Luce ...................................... * Lori & Hal Luft ............................. 100 Kevin Mayer & Barbara Zimmer......... * Richard L. Mazze ......................... 100 Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green...... 100 Eve & John Melton ....................... 500 Merrill & Lee Newman ................. 250 Craig & Sally Nordlund.................. 500 Jim & Alma Phillips....................... 250 Helene Pier...................................... * David & Virginia Pollard ................ 300 Teresa Roberts ......................... 2,000 Dick and Ruth Rosenbaum ........... 100 Peter and Beth Rosenthal ............. 300 Steve & Karen Ross ..................... 100 Nancy & Norm Rossen ..................... * Don & Ann Rothblatt ........................ * Dan and Lynne Russell................. 250 John and Mary Schaefer ............... 100 Jerry & Donna Silverberg .............. 100 Bob and Diane Simoni.................. 200 Art and Peggy Stauffer ................. 500 Peter S Stern ................................... * Jeanne and Leonard Ware ................ * Roger Warnke .............................. 200 Susan & Doug Woodman.................. * Gil and Gail Woolley ..................... 300 Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan . 1,000 Art & Helen Kraemer ........................ * Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier ............ * Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow... 200 Andrea Smith............................... 100 Larry Baer & Stephanie Klein............ * Ms. Amy Renalds ........................... * Jody Maxmin................................... * Van Whitis ................................... 200 Diane Doolittle ................................. *

John & Nancy Cassidy .................. 300 Charles P. Bonini.............................. * Lee & Judy Shulman ........................ * Robert & Barbara Simpson ............... * Janis Ulevich ............................... 100 Judith & James Kleinberg ................. * Leo & Marlys Keoshian .................... * James & Renee Masterson............... * Ralph Britton ............................... 300 Nancy Steege .............................. 100 Joanne Koltnow ........................... 200 Diane & Steve Ciesinski ............... 500 Charlotte Epstein ............................. * Caroline Hicks & Bert Fingerhut .... 100 Jessie Ngai .................................. 100 Xiaofan Lin .................................... 50 Hal and Carol Louchheim ................. * Rathmann Family Foundation ............ * Judy Ousterhout ............................... * Debby Roth.................................. 100 Sandy & Rajiv Jain........................ 101 Dennis & Cindy Dillon ....................... * Ho John Lee ................................ 100 Stan & Yulia Shore ........................... * Mehdi Alhassani .......................... 150 Dmitri Seals .................................... * Mike & Dana Nelson ...................... 75 Brigid Barton & Rob Robinson ...... 400 Adria & Beau Brown ......................... * Meri Gruber & James Taylor .............. * Janice Bohman ............................ 250 Jan Swan......................................... * Dexter & Jean Dawes ....................... * Nina Kulgein ................................ 200 Rick & Eileen Brooks ........................ * Michael & Jean Couch .................. 250 Martha Cohn ............................... 100 Maureen Martin ............................... * Diane Moore.................................... * Micki & Bob Cardelli ......................... * Matt Glickman & Susie Hwang ...... 500 Ralph Wheeler ............................. 225 Robyn Crumly .................................. * Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell........ 1,000 Jan Thomson & Roy Levin ............. 250 Shirley Ely.................................... 500 Tatyana Berezin ............................... * Bonnie & Bryan Street ..................... * Bob & Joan Jack .......................... 300 Annette Glanckopf & Tom Ashton ...... * George & Betsy Young ...................... * Mahlon & Carol Hubenthal................ * John & Ruth Devries......................... * Linnea Wickstrom ........................ 100 David & Lynn Mitchell ................... 300 Virginia Fehrenbacher................... 100 Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith... * Mike & Cathie Foster.................... 500 Don & Bonnie Miller ......................... * Page & Ferrell Sanders................. 100 Joyce Barker ................................ 100 Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang ................... 200 Hugh McDevitt ............................. 200 Robert French.............................. 100 Patricia Thomas ........................... 100 Scott Wong .................................. 200 Pam Mayerfield ............................ 100 Thomas Rindfleisch .......................... * David Labaree ............................. 200 Mike & Lennie Roberts................. 100 Boyce & Peggy Nute ......................... * Zelda Jury ................................... 100 Karen Sundback & James Moore .. 500 Steve & Mary Chapel ....................... * John & Lee Pierce ........................ 250 Mary Jo & Leonard Levy ............... 250

In Memory Of Bob Markevitch ................................ * Mom, Dad and Louie ........................ * Ryan ............................................... * Florence Kan Ho .............................. * Dominic Greening .......................... 50

The other 99% ............................. 200 Nickolas Rudd ............................. 100 Ludwig Tannenwald .......................... * Jack Sutorius ............................... 300 Nick ........................................... 500 Emmett Lorey .................................. * Becky Schaefer ................................ * Ted Linden................................... 200 Al and Kay Nelson ............................ * Dr. Elliot Eisner ................................ * Ruth & Chet Johnson ....................... * Robert Lobdell ................................. * Baxter Armstrong ......................... 100 Phillip Gottheiner ............................. * Boyd Paulson, Jr .............................. * Dan Dykwel ..................................... * Dr. David Zlotnick ............................. * Dr. John Plummer Steward............ 100 Richard Brennan .............................. * Bob Donald ..................................... * Leonard W. Ely ............................. 200 Don and Marie Snow .................... 100 Kathy Morris .................................... * Pam Grady................................... 250 Carol Berkowitz ................................ * Yen-Chen and Er-Ying Yen ............. 250 Francine Mendlin ............................. * Richard Brennan .......................... 100 Helene F. Klein ................................ * Jean M. Law ................................ 100 Ernest J. Moore ............................... * Mary Floyd..................................... 25 Thomas W. and Louise L. Phinney ..... * Leo Breidenbach .............................. * Bob Schauer................................ 150 Bertha Kalson ................................. * Steve Fasani................................ 100 Jimmie Dickinson ......................... 100 John F. Smith............................... 250 Robert Spinrad ............................ 500 My sweet Dad Al Pellizzari ................ * My sweet dog “Tufi” ......................... * Ed Arnold......................................... * Sam Stewart & Alan Stewart ............ * August Lee King ............................. 25 Nate Rosenberg ............................. 75 Betty Meltzer ................................... * Aarol O’Neill .................................... * John Black................................... 500 Jim Byrnes................................... 100

In Honor Of Our grandchildren Emma, Greyson, Elizabeth & Samuel ................... 300 Richard Van Dusen & Kaye Kelley ... 250 Marilyn Sutorius ........................... 300 The Barnea-Smith Family .................. * Hamilton Avenue friends................... * Sallie Tasto.................................. 100 Gary Fazzino .................................... * Uncle Bill’s 50th birthday ................. * The Settle Family ......................... 500 Palo Alto Weekly staff ...................... * Sandy Sloan ................................ 100 Larry Klein’s service on City Council ... *

As a Gift For Mark Zuanich............................... 150

Foundations, Businesses & Organizations Palo Alto Business Park ............ 1,000 United Methodist Women of the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto ............................... 500 Arrillaga Foundation ............... 10,000 Peery Foundation .................... 10,000 Communication & Power Industries....500 Attorney Susan Dondershine ........ 250 Harrell Remodeling, Inc. ................... * Bleibler Properties LLC ................. 500 Alta Mesa Improvement Company ............................... 1,500 Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk .......................... 36,994

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adult-friendly. The “classic 1920” comes with grilled cheddar cheese on country-style wheat bread, while the “fondue” features brie, sliced apples and a drizzle of honey on sourdough bread. Indulge with the “dolce panini”: challah bread with nutella and fresh strawberries, sprinkled with powdered sugar and chocolate chips.

“It’s a combination of something for everyone,” said Sullivan, who loves ice cream and frozen yogurt, but whose husband is a health freak.

Sweet Shop shows its commitment to the environment with solar panels on the roof and skylights to cut down on electricity use. But the real focus here is building community. In addition to supporting schools, Sullivan said the shop participates in local book drives and has been used by neighbors as a stop on treasure hunts.

“A lot of people ask, ‘Is it what hoped it would be?’ If you go there on a given day, it’s usually buzzing with kids coming on bikes and families doing their daily walks over to the Sweet Shop. It’s become a local destination, which is exactly what we wanted.” n

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by Elena Kadvany

JOHN’S CAFE SHUTTERS ... The usually bright and airy John’s Cafe at Lytton Avenue and Waverley Street in downtown Palo Alto looked decidedly different Monday afternoon, with glass bakery cases empty and furniture stacked. Owner John Adams, a longtime Palo Alto resident and former high-tech employee, decided to close the cafe Dec. 30 after a three-year run. “I was working a lot of long hours and (the cafe) probably wasn’t as busy as I was hoping it would be,” Adams said Monday. “But we had good business; we had great employees and all the customers. I think I was just spending too much time here.

It appears to be time to move on.”

Adams opened the cafe at 401 Lytton Ave. in 2011 after a career in high-tech. “I was walking across the street from Mollie Stone’s and there was a ‘for lease’ sign on a restaurant that was there and a little light bulb turned on,” Adams remembered. He said to himself, “’Hey, maybe I’ll do that.’” He said he wanted it to be an “all-around cafe,” though they specialized in freshly made panini. All meats were

prepared in house — the ham baked, the turkey slow-roasted for hours and the chicken and tri-tip cooked on a grill that sat out front.

The cafe also served coffee, soups, salads, breakfast items and baked goods. Adams also added “John’s Cafe At Night” with wine tastings, games and specialty dinner items.

Adams said one of the most surprising and rewarding things about opening the cafe was that it became a place his customers were attached to. “You think you’re opening up your cafe and what you realize quickly is that the people who come in take it over and it’s their cafe,” he said. “If you change something on the menu, it’s like, ‘You changed my menu!’” he laughed. Adams said he’s “pretty sure” the person who took over his lease will be opening a restaurant, though he doesn’t know what kind.

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THE MILK-TEA DROUGHT IS OVER ... Is downtown Palo Alto experiencing a mini milk-tea resurgence? There will soon be two new milk-tea shops, with T4 opening on University Avenue in October and Gong Cha on its

way to Waverley Street. Gong Cha is a massive Taiwanese milktea chain with more than 300 locations throughout Asia and Australia. The first U.S. Gong Cha opened in Fremont in 2013, and two more came to San Jose in 2014. The space at 439 Waverley St. (between University and Lytton Avenue) is currently under construction; company representative Steve Imai said they’re hoping to be open by the end of January. Gong Cha serves up brewed teas and a range of milk teas from oolong to Earl Grey, coffee to brown sugar. Toppings include tapioca pearls, coconut jelly, basil seed, herbal jelly and pudding. There are also “milk foam” teas (the “mustache series”) which are topped with a layer of foam. As at most milk-tea spots, customers can adjust ice and sugar levels to their preferences. Check out the menu and the Fremont location’s Yelp page to see their full range of offerings. P.S.: Thanks to astute reader Khoi Huynh who reminded us that before T4 replaced Loving Hut at 165 University Ave., there was a milk-tea shop at that location, as well as another — Q-Cup — just down the street.

Check out more food news online at Elena Kadvany’s blog, Peninsula Foodist, at paloaltoonline.com/blogs/.

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David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Selma,” a timely recounting of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery protest marches to secure equal voting rights for blacks.

King for the day

Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” drops right on time for a symposium on civil rights activism MMM (Century 16, Century 20) Perhaps it’s best to start where “Selma” ends, with the song “Glory,” in which hip-hop artist Common raps, “Resistance is us./ That’s why Rosa sat on the bus./ That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up.” Given that the film premiered November 11, just two weeks before a grand jury announced its decision not to indict the police officer who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown, “Selma” strikes a timely chord in the ongoing struggle for African-American civil rights.

“Selma” isn’t a Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, something that has still eluded Hollywood (and thank King’s heirs for that). But it is the first feature film to put King front and center as protagonist, and it stands an excellent chance of educating a generation about the hard work and imagination required for political change. Paul Webb’s screenplay and Ava Du-

Vernay’s film begin as King (British actor David Oyelowo) readies, in Oslo, to accept the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. King frets about the pomp and wishes he were doing something more active about the climate that allows hate crimes (the Birmingham bombing, searingly revived in flashback) and voter discrimination (illustrated

by Oprah Winfrey’s Annie Lee Cooper being denied yet another voter registration application).

The stage set, “Selma” sets out to tell the tale of how King was the calm center of the stormy threemonth period in 1965 that built to three Selma-to-Montgomery protest marches and culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act. Oyelowo commendably wears King’s public face (the actor’s weight gain for the role contributes to a startling change of appearance), though King feels more enshrined than full-blooded in “Selma”’s treatment.

When “Selma” is on the ground, cataloging the strategizing of (and tensions between) the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, it’s at its most useful: John Lewis (Stephan James), James Bevel (Common), and Hosea Williams (Wendell Pierce) appear as key figures in a movement that wasn’t King’s alone. We also follow the civil rights leader to significantly high and low destinations: the Oval Office (for Mexican standoffs with Tom Wilkinson’s sympathetic but hesitant and irritable LBJ) and a jail cell (where Nigel Thatch’s Malcolm X visits and offers to be the scary alternative to answering King’s demands).

It says something, though, that I sat down with a steady stream of coffee to watch “Selma” and still found it sleepy. At times, DuVernay’s film plays like a talking textbook, with a slow cadence at that.

The dialogue is speechy even when King isn’t behind a podium (don’t get me started on the dramatically D.O.A. scene about King’s infidelity), and the characters’ frustrations feel less like functions of humanity than illustrations of a thesis. Perhaps that’s for the best — there’s a certain rigor to it, and DuVernay’s general sense of stylistic restraint befits King, just as Spike Lee’s fire complemented his “Malcolm X” — but a story like “Selma” would’ve benefited from more passion or energy in its writing if not its filmmaking.

All in all, though, “Selma” is wet paint Americans (especially young ones) had probably best watch dry, as we remember the past and contemplate where the country goes from here.

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In “Inherent Vice,” Joaquin Phoenix plays pothead private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello; Sasha Pieterse plays runaway teen cocaine addict Japonica Fenway.

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tributes to its deterioration, damage or wastage.” As Paul Thomas Anderson’s film bears out, we all have one, as do our relationships and our country.

A casual viewing of “Inherent Vice” likely would make it seem to be about next to nothing or, perhaps, about far too much to bother with. Taking a page from Raymond Chandler (and as filtered through writer-director Anderson), Pynchon lays a labyrinthine trail through Los Angeles for his private eye protagonist, stoner detective “Doc” Sportello

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(Joaquin Phoenix). Visited by ex Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), an archetypal “woman in trouble,” Doc finds himself shambling his way through a kidnapping investigation while dodging his frenemy (Josh Brolin’s L.A.P.D. Lt. Detective “Bigfoot” Bjornsen) and encountering a motley assortment of oddballs and threatening types.

It is possible, though unlikely, that you’ll follow the plot without taking notes, but the plot is a sideshow to the film’s luxuriant atmosphere, cracked sense of humor and idiosyncratic characterization. Set in 1970, “Vice” captures a moment of disillusionment at the end of the swingin’ sixties, and for Sportello, whose investigation pokes a hornet’s nest of L.A. real-estate corruption (shades of “Chinatown”’s water wars) and forces him to confront his feelings for Shasta (even as

he canoodles with Reese Witherspoon’s deputy D.A.).

One of the best ensembles of the year inhabits this strange territory: Brolin’s flat-topped, “hippie-hating mad dog” (and S.A.G. member) is a certified hoot, a demented deadpan variation on good old conservative Joe Friday; Waterston seems painted onto the celluloid as the ethereal object of Doc’s obsession; Owen Wilson pops up as a surf-sax legend and anti-subversive undercover narc, with Jena Malone as his barely hinged squeeze; there’s Jefferson Mays as a dubious doctor and Martin Short as a druggy dentist; and, best of all, Benicio Del Toro as eccentric maritime lawyer Sauncho Smilax, Esq. Anderson’s development from promising showoff to mature filmmaker has resulted in other “difficult,” offbeat, but rich and rewarding films, including “The

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Master.” On this one, he stamps Pynchon’s epigraph, that rallying cry of 1968 Paris — “Under the paving-stones, the beach!”

— as an encapsulation of the cold war between peace-and-love “free thinkers” and the “ancient forces of greed and fear.” As the film’s narrator muses, “As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel could always be sure of a bottomless pool of new customers.”

On a more universal note: In the end, Doc stares into the face of that beach-blonde actress Shasta and wonders if she has an inherent vice, and which of his has held him there: love or obsessive compulsion.

Rated R for drug use throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violence.

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For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.

Annie (PG) Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:05, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:10 p.m.

Into the Woods (PG) HHH Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 20: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:25, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Big Eyes (PG-13) HHH Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: Fri 7:55 & 10:30 p.m. Sat & Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:20, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

Mr. Turner (R)

Big Hero 6 (PG) Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:25, 4:05, 6:45 & 9:25 p.m.

The Penguins of Madagascar (PG) HH Century 16: 11:35 a.m., Fri & Sat 2 & 4:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:40 & 4:10 p.m.

Birdman (R) HHH Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.

Selma (PG-13) HHH Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:30, 4:35, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m.

Exodus: Gods and Kings (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 20: 6:55 & 10:20 p.m.

Taken 3 (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:15, 4, 6:50 & 9:40 p.m. In X-D at 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Foxcatcher (R) HHH1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1:15, 4, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m.

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Century 16: 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m.

The Gambler (R) HHH Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 16: 12:30 & 7:10 p.m. In 3-D at 3:50 & 10:25 p.m.

Century 20: 12:35 & 7:10 p.m. In 3-D at 3:50 & 10:30 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:30, 4:35, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.

Tevar (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri & Sat 7 & 10:40 p.m., Sun 10 p.m.

The Theory of Everything (PG-13) HH Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Top Five (R) HH1/2 Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.

Unbroken (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 16: 12:15, 3:35, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:50, 4, 7:15 & 10:25 p.m.

The Imitation Game (PG-13) HHH Century 16: 11:25 a.m., 12:45, 2:15, 3:40, 5, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 11 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m.

Wild (R) HHH Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m.

Inherent Vice (R) HHH1/2 Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:15, 2, 3:45, 5:30, 7:15, 9 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 3:35, 7 & 10:20 p.m.

Interstellar (PG-13) HH1/2 Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2:50, 6:30 & 10:05 p.m.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 & 7 p.m.

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (PG-13) Century 16: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:25 & 9:55 p.m.

Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:35, 4:05, 6:40 & 9:20 p.m.

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Book Talk

LOCAL FAME ... Palo Alto resident (and Paly grad) Emily Jiang’s

Title Pages A monthly section on local books and authors

debut children’s book “Sum-

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moning the Phoenix: Poems & Prose about Chinese Musical Instruments” won a Eureka! Honor

Silicon Valley authors explore cosmic questions in new children’s book

Award from the California Reading Association, which recognizes excellence in nonfiction written

by Karla Kane

for children. Illustrated by April Chu and published by Shen’s Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, the book is available at local bookstores and online. Info: emilyjiang.com FOR THE KIDS ... Longtime Palo Alto resident and retired lawyer Dick Maltzman has penned “Animal Quackers, or Dog-Eared Doggeral,” an illustrated book of poems designed for children (or those who read to them).

Designed to be funny and edu-

cational, the poems include “The well as poems expounding on the saber-toothed tiger “that died out for the lack of a good dentist” or “Darian the Vegetarian, the story of a lion that didn’t like meat,” Maltzman wrote in an email. A second book, “Carrier Daze, Tales from the USS Oriskany and USS Lake Champlain,” is a memoir that he describes as “Ensign Pulver meets McHale’s Navy, with a bit

Author Emer Martin collaborated with a scientist and illustrator on her children’s book, “Why is the Moon Following Me?”

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cientific discoveries are often presented as a series of spontaneous brainstorms by famous thinkers. In reality, according to writer Emer Martin, progress in science evolves

through cooperation, and relies on the observations and experiments of those who came before. Martin, along with co-author Suzana Tulac and illustrator Magdalena Zuljevic, offers a fresh look at as-

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Wiggly Things We Once Were,” as

tronomy in a new children’s book, “Why is the Moon Following Me?,” recently released by Martin’s own Rawmeash publishing cooperative.

“When you live in Silicon Valley you tend to latch on to the idea of the Steve Jobs, of the lone genius, when really it’s always collaboration, cooperation and building on previous ideas,” Martin said. “It’s much less intimidating for kids when they realize this.”

The book, targeted at third to sixth graders, takes the reader from humanity’s earliest days in Africa through the European Renaissance and the work of Galileo, Kepler and others, with the character of “the curious child” acting as guide throughout. Tulac is a Stanford-trained scientist who provided research for the book; Martin presents the information in brief, rhyming poems accompanied by Zuljevic’s whimsical illustrations.

“Why is the Moon Following Me?” is itself a local and international collaboration. Martin is a

professional novelist and a native of Ireland who now lives in Palo Alto and has two daughters in the public schools; Tulac and Zuljevic are both Croatian-born women who shared a vision of publishing an accurate and engaging history-of-science book for kids. The three became friends, and Martin joined the team to complete what she called “a trinity of art, science and words.”

The book’s title refers to an anecdote from Martin’s own family history, in which her younger sister burst into tears during a car trip, terrified that the moon appeared to be following her. Inspired by the innate curiosity of children, Martin decided to focus her text on the age-old question: “What is our place in the universe?”

Martin and Tulac made sure to note that famous scientific thinkers — including Aristotle and Ptolemy — sometimes held theories about the solar system that were simply incorrect. (continued on next page)

of real adventure and a good love story thrown in.” Both books are available at Books, Inc. and online.

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and musician, has written “The Mathematician’s Shiva,” a comic novel about Polish-Russian emigres, math and American culture.

Published by Penguin Books, the book is available at local bookstores and at amazon.com.

INNER PEACE ... Philanthrophist and spiritual coach Barb Schmidt has written a new book, “The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness.” Info: barbschmidt.com

Items for Book Talk may be sent to Associate Editor Carol Blitzer, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 93202 or emailed to cblitzer@ paweekly.com.

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Emer Martin’s first children’s book encourages young readers to ask questions about the universe. (continued from previous page)

“Sometimes these clever men were wrong, and I can be pretty cheeky with that,” Martin said.

In the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley, Martin has teamed up with fellow writers and artists to form Rawmeash: an independent cooperative publishing platform in which writers meet monthly at Philz Coffee on Middlefield

Road to brainstorm, advise and assist each other’s ventures.

Rather than rely on traditional means of publicity, such as bookstore appearances, Rawmeash plans to hold salons for kids and parents at private homes, where each contributor will lead a lesson in her area of expertise. In the next year, Rawmeash plans to release four or five new books.

Meanwhile, Martin is working on

another children’s book, this one delving into the traditional Celtic roots of Halloween.

Writing for children, especially in rhyming poetry form, has proved a refreshing challenge for the author, who’s accustomed to writing lengthy literature for adults.

“It’s easier to make simple things complicated than it is to make complicated things

simple,” Martin said, laughing.

“Maybe that’s the key to the universe.”

Rhymes, she added, are proven to aid with memory.

Martin’s neighbor Valerie Sabbag teaches fifth grade at Fairmeadow Elementary School and decided “Why is the Moon Following Me?” works well with the new Common Core standards with their emphasis on multidisciplinary learning.

Sabbag’s students will direct and perform the text in an assembly for the school in addition to filming and blogging about the experience.

“If you read it, that’s one thing, but performing it, editing it, you’re going to remember that better; it’s much more effective for long-term memory,” Martin said. She hopes Fairmeadow’s project will become a pilot program that can be used in other schools. Plans to visit elementary school classes in Mountain View and San Carlos are also in the works, and there may be even more; Martin said she thinks the book lends itself to adaptations in other media including animation and music.

So far, Martin is delighted with the discussions the book has provoked among students. As a feminist, she said, she was very conscious of the fact that the book features only male Europeans as noteworthy scientists.

“I was tempted to be politically

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correct, asking, ‘Can we dig up a woman?’” But ultimately, she and her co-authors wanted student readers to be aware that privileged, white males were historically the ones who had the opportunities to devote themselves to scientific study and promote their ideas. The book’s “curious child” character, depicted as a young girl of color, serves to represent those ignored by history, as well as hope for the scientists of the future. Martin also hoped to get across some of the struggles between new ideas and established power structures, such as between Galileo and the Church, which she noted still echo today in the clash between scientists clamoring about climate change versus corporations and politicians invested in the status quo.

Fairmeadow students have been quick to make such connections, Martin said.

The purpose of “Why is the Moon Following Me?” is not to provide answers, Martin explained, but to encourage ongoing questions. In the words of the book’s final poem: “Never EVER stop asking.” n “Why is the Moon Following Me?” by Emer Martin and Suzana Tulac; Rawmeash Books; 2014, 44 pp., $11.69 Freelance writer Karla Kane can be emailed at karlajkane@ gmail.com.

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TREE WALK ... Peter Jensen, a landscape architect for the City of Palo Alto, will lead a free tree walk through the Greenmeadow neighborhood on Saturday, Jan. 10, 10 a.m. to noon, meeting at the Greenmeadow Community Center, 303 Parkside Drive, Palo Alto. Expect to see Sugar Maple, Bigleaf Maple, Cork Oak, Torrey Pine, Brazilian Pepper Tree, Moraine Ash, Soapbark Tree, Tulip Tree, Holly Oak and more.

Info: Canopy at 650-964-6110 or canopy.org WINTER GARDENING ... Landscape designer Sheri Bohan will teach a class on “Gardening in Winter” from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays, Jan. 14 to March 18, at Cubberley Community Center, Room A2, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Focus will be on building the soil, pruning and preventing pests and diseases; it will also cover organic dormant spraying and composting.

Cost is $70. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org BULBS FOR SPRING ... Ella Ancheta, Gamble Garden manager, and Gwen Whittier, Gamble Garden volunteer, will offer a class called “Pot up a Pot of Bulbs for Spring” from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 16, at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Topics will include how to select, care for and plant bulbs (think tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths and paper whites). Participants will plant a container to take home. Cost is $47 for nonmembers, $37 for members. Info: 650329-1356 or gamblegarden.org FREE FABRIC … The next FabMo free fabric distribution event is Thursday, Jan. 15, 4:30 to 8 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 16, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 17, 9 a.m. to noon. Appointments are required on Thursday and Friday, but not on Saturday, to help manage the crowds. (Email gather. fabrix@me.com with preferred date and time.) The distribution, with a requested donation, takes place at 2423 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View. Volunteer greeters and sorters are also needed. Info: fabmo.org

Crescent Park Elegant, green, convenient and kid-friendly story by Kathy Cordova • photos by Veronica Weber

Crescent Park is renowned for elegant homes on spacious, verdant lots and wide streets that are canopied by grand trees. The neighborhood has the feeling of a small town, with the advantage of being located next to Palo Alto’s bustling downtown with its many restaurants, shops and businesses.

It’s no wonder that residents like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young have chosen to make Crescent Park their home.

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MAKE A PLAN ... January’s agenda for Do 1 Thing, a monthly program with suggestions for how to prepare for emergencies or disasters, is to “make a plan” so you can decide quickly what to do. The website offers fact sheets and videos. Info: do1thing.com// things/jan Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

Anne Butler, who moved from New York City with her family in July, liked the East-Coast feel of the neighborhood and the charm of the old houses.

“We looked at Menlo Park, Atherton and Los Altos, but we chose Crescent Park because it was the most quintessential Norman Rockwell neighborhood,” Butler said. But the biggest draw was the accessibility to schools and activities for her children.

Butler and her husband, Bill, have four children and a fifth on the way. “Being pregnant, I knew for sure that I needed my kids to be able to ride their bikes or walk to school. The kids here seem to have more flexibility and freedom than most places.

What I love most is that my kids organize their own playdates, and we always have kids in the kitchen. It’s very different from New York where everything was so structured and almost everyone had full-time nannies,” Butler said.

Harriet Berner, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 40 years, was also attracted to the neighborhood for the same reasons as Butler. “It is a great neighborhood to raise children. My kids played in the street and walked to school and rode their bikes to the Children’s Library. They loved it,” Berner said.

The idyllic family-oriented nature of the neighborhood can be seen on a typical Sunday stroll through Eleanor Pardee Park, where two boys play a game of catch, toddlers dig in the sandbox and a dad tosses a Frisbee with his children. The park, which at 9.6 acres is the second largest neighborhood park in Palo Alto, includes two children’s playgrounds, a picnic area with barbecues, paths for walking or jogging and community vegetable gardens.

Janet Seaman, who has lived

Clockwise, from top: Homes in the Crescent Park neighborhood tend to be more architecturally traditional, including ones on Hamilton Avenue, Guinda Street, Pitman Avenue and Forest Avenue.

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Los Altos in Crescent Park since 1980, frequently walks her dog, Bella, in the park. Seaman and her husband came to the area when he attended Stanford and decided to stay. “Once you live here, you can’t go back. It’s a beautiful area with lots of amenities and the trees are to die for,� she said.

Seaman also appreciates the great schools nearby. “Our kids went to Walter Hays, Duveneck, Jordan and Paly. Now my daughter teaches at Duveneck and my grandkids get to go there,� she said.

The broad appeal of the neighborhood has created some changes that long-term residents do not so much appreciate, including lots of ongoing construction and an increase in surrounding traffic. But, even with these changes, Crescent Park has managed to retain its unique character with a mix of architectural styles, including many traditional homes that have been remodeled on the inside while preserving their exteriors.

The friendliness and sense of community has also been preserved. “We live in a cul-de-sac and everybody knows everybody,�

Seaman said. “It’s a wonderful neighborhood where everybody watches out for one another.� Q

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $2,325,000 Highest sales price: $5,900,000

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $1,100,000 Highest sales price: $1,800,000

Menlo Park

Redwood City

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,679,000 Highest sales price: $3,500,500

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $1,300,000 Highest sales price: $1,670,000 Source: California REsource

Mountain View Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $648,000 Highest sales price: $3,015,000

HOME SALES

The Butler family (from left) — Tommy, 9; Jane, 7; Anne and Bill; Teddy, 11; and Henry, 4 — pose for a portrait in their Crescent Park home as Henry plays with his Legos.

FACTS

FIRE STATION: No. 3, 799 Embarcadero Road LIBRARY: Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road LOCATION: bounded by San Francisquito Creek, Newell Road, Channing Avenue and Middlefield Road NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Norman Beamer, president, 650-327-7071 PARKS: Eleanor Pardee Park, 851 Center Drive; Hopkins Creekside Park along Palo Alto Avenue POST OFFICES: Hamilton, 380 Hamilton Ave.; Main, 2085 E. Bayshore Road PRIVATE SCHOOLS: St. Elizabeth Seton School, 1095 Channing Ave. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Duveneck Elementary School, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto High School SHOPPING (nearby): The Willows Market, 60 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park; University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto; Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center

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Los Altos

1140 Border Road Liao-Lai Trust to K. Dayal for $2,550,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 5/06, $2,075,000 471 Border Hill Road Rado Trust to K. McHugh for $3,625,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 3/99, $1,350,000 33 Deep Well Lane Ayres Trust to Guthaner Trust for $2,325,000 on 12/11/14; previous sale 10/04, $1,175,000 767 Santa Rita Ave. Enriques Ventures to S. & N. Falkenburg for $4,800,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 5/13, $1,950,000 500 University Ave. Heffernan Trust to Copeland Trust for $5,900,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 8/12, $4,900,000

Menlo Park

738 17th Ave. HSCLSC Investment to M. Choi for $1,679,000 on 11/20/14; previous sale 2/13, $666,000

807 Paulson Circle Porter Trust to A. & E. Bjorlin for $2,535,000 on 11/20/14; previous sale 3/11, $1,700,000 531 Pope St. M. & S. Weinberger to X. Xu for $2,600,000 on 11/18/14; previous sale 12/11, $540,000 1631 Santa Cruz Ave. M. & A. Vameghi to L. Liu for $3,500,500 on 11/19/14; previous sale 5/02, $730,000 417 Shirley Way Ziegler Trust to E. Goh for $1,688,000 on 11/18/14

Mountain View

181 Centre St. #21 Corkern Trust to T. Khan for $875,000 on 12/8/14 1560 Layla Court M. Yi to M. & L. Chudzik for $1,600,000 on 12/11/14; previous sale 5/08, $940,000 320 Mansfield Drive A. & M. Goldberg to Edmond Online Holdings for $3,015,000 on 12/8/14; previous sale 9/12, $1,862,000 595 Mccarty Ave. Chambers Trust to W. Hermann for $1,270,000 on 12/9/14 905 W. Middlefield Road #945 S. Arnold to L. & A. Peters for $648,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 7/08, $490,000 1585 Villa St. T. Jensen to D. Pao for $1,150,000 on 12/8/14; previous sale 5/05, $700,000

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Garden Tips Time to learn a new garden game, then prune and mulch

by Jack McKinnon have found a sport that can be played just outside the garden gate. It is a sport for young and old and a sport where women are as good as men. It is not very expensive, is easily learned, is simple yet is as complex as chess.

Petanque is a French (originally Roman) game of boules (like bowling) played on the terrain (the land). Unlike lawn bowling and bocce ball, it is not played on turf nor does it require a measured and maintained court. Petanque can be played literally on a path or a piece of nearly bare ground anywhere. Using hollow steel balls ordered by size and weight to fit the player and a small yellow, green, blue or black target ball (called the couchenet or Jack), the goal is to toss or shoot the boule toward and as near as possible to the target ball or knock your opponents’ balls away from the couchenet.

Simple, until you try it. This is a wonderful spring/summer sport played all over Europe and Southeast Asia and now America. One of my first games was against a retired gardener in Golden Gate Park, and the women playing as our teammates were more skilled than we were. Be-

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Palo Alto

676 Colorado Ave. A. Green to F. Ye for $1,620,000 on 12/10/14; previous sale 1/04, $850,000 925 Middlefield Road Samuels Trust to G. Comsa for $1,800,000 on 12/8/14; previous sale 1/05, $1,025,000 765 San Antonio Road #71 Porter Trust to A. Joshi for $1,100,000 on 12/8/14; previous sale 9/93, $205,000

Redwood City

3709 Country Club Drive R. Reiss to S. Hernandez for $1,300,000 on 11/18/14; previous sale 2/95, $345,000 399 Sequoia Ave. M. & G. Bailon to S. Ort for $1,670,000 on 11/20/14; previous sale 5/04, $820,000

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tween games they brought out wine and biscotti and spoke French, Italian, German and English in an excited fun enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in a sport since childhood.

I recommend Petanque for all as a true gardeners’ game.

This month’s tips are about cleanup, pruning, planting and mulch. I even have a catalog with an amazing selection of organic seeds, tools and books to order. Here are the tips: 1. The website www.petanqueamerica.com is the best first place to connect with this sport. There is an online store, game rules, blog and famous player link to look at and order form to get started.

2. After the storms there is always debris in the garden.

If it seems daunting, do just one area at a time. Soon it will all be tidy, and you can start pruning.

3. Prune all deciduous plants. Deciduous means they lose their leaves in winter. Dead, dying and diseased get pruned first. Then crossing, rubbing, straight up and straight down branches. Remember, no stubs and always cut to a lateral branch and with an angle cut that parallels the lateral.

4. Remove unhealthy plants, old declining roses, weeds and plants clogging the new planting areas.

5. Amend new planting areas with compost. Remember compost is organic matter that is partially or completely broken down — not wood chips, fresh prunings, grass clippings, fresh leaves or fresh food trimmings. It needs to be

Rent Watch Noisy laundry room disturbs tenant edited by Anky van Deursen

Q

I live in a small apartment property, with four separate rental cottages. There is a laundry room on the property, right next to my cottage; in fact it is part of the same structure. I knew the laundry room was nearby when I signed a one-year lease, but what I didn’t expect was that the other tenants would decide to do their laundry at all hours of the day and the night. When someone uses the washer and dryer at 2 o’clock in the morning, I lose several hours of sleep. This happens quite often.

I know that laundry privileges are included in every rental agreement for the tenants on the property, but do I have any right to insist that the room be closed at

certain hours?

California law implies a promise that every residential tenant will be able to live in their rental property, protected by a covenant of “quiet enjoyment.� This right to quiet enjoyment is not described in specific detail because it is intended to create a general right to enjoy one’s tenancy in reasonable peace and quiet.

This right to quiet enjoyment requires a balance between the needs of different tenants living at the same property with different lifestyles. In the circumstances you describe, the question would be whether disturbing you to use the laundry equipment in the middle of the night is an unreasonable infringement on your

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peace and quiet versus a limitation on laundry hours that would infringe on the right of other tenants to clean their possessions at a time that works best for them.

Your situation is particularly suited for a mediation type of approach. Mediation could bring the other tenants together with you to work out reasonable ground rules for use of the laundry room, balancing the needs of everyone. This approach should be appealing to your landlord who would otherwise be caught in the middle of competing demands from you versus the other tenants.

If there is no mediation program available, or the other tenants won’t cooperate, you need to approach your landlord to assert that your right to quiet enjoyment is being violated, which would be a violation of your lease. The landlord would need to unilaterally impose new rules for the laundry room or risk a claim from you for the re-

broken down or it will take nutrients from the soil. Redwood compost can be bought in bags, is weed free and has been fortified with nitrogen to give plants a boost of fertilizer when they go in. Lyngso garden supply on Seaport Boulevard in Redwood City has organic compost. They are on the east side of Highway 101. Lyngso has mulch as well.

Mulch goes on top of the soil (not dug in) after planting.

6. Get the “Bountiful Gardens 2015 Catalog� (go to www.bountifulgardens.org). They have an amazing seed selection.

7. Order seeds, roses, trees, shrubs, tools and books for the New Year. Get catalogs online or order through a nursery like Half Moon Bay Nursery.

8. Stretch, do yoga, visit the spa for a massage, walk with friends and otherwise prepare yourself for gardening when the weather warms up.

9. Join a garden club, arboretum, plant society or community garden for social support, education and connection.

10. Plan now for a spring party. Remember, the third week in March is when the cherry trees bloom. Bulbs come up even earlier.

Good gardening. Q Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at 650455-0687 (cell), by email at jack@jackthegardencoach. com. Visit his website at www.jackthegardencoach.com. sulting damages or risk a decision by you to consider breaking your lease. However, before thinking about breaking a lease, you would need to show you took every reasonable step to rectify the violation because a judge would need to be convinced that this violation of your right to quiet enjoyment was truly unbearable and that no other remedy was available to you. Q

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The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation is a trust that makes grants available to organizations from donations by REALTORS® and affiliate members and the local trade association’s district fundraisers. The 2014 grant recipients include ALearn, a nonprofit organization committed to helping underrepresented students in 11 school districts in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties get to and succeed in college; East Palo Alto Kids Foundation, a community-based, all-volunteer organization whose mission is to promote educational opportunities and academic success for students in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park; JustREAD, a cross-generational program composed of retired professionals in the Los Altos and Mountain View communities who are trained as tutors to teach reading and writing basics to students who did not learn these skills in earlier grades; and Youth Community Service (YCS), which provides community service, service learning, and leadership activities to underserved students in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Palo Alto in grades K-12.

As part of its annual scholarship program, the Charitable Foundation present-

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SILVAR’s districts also donated to their local community nonprofit organizations through the Charitable Foundation in 2014. Proceeds from the Los Gatos/ Saratoga District pumpkin auction were presented to the Family Giving Tree for Operation Reindeer; proceeds from the Cupertino/Sunnyvale District’s Valentine Charity Auction purchased backpacks for needy students through West Valley Community Services and Sunnyvale Community Services; donations at the Los Altos/ Mountain View District’s Legal Update sessions were presented to Community Services Agency; and $18,700 raised by the Menlo Park/Atherton District was donated to Partnership for Success.

“We thank our members for being so generous and supporting the Foundation year after year,” said John Tripp, president of the Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation. “With our members’ continued support for and contributions to the communities where they work and live, we can continue our commitment to the welfare and prosperity of these communities.”

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166 Olive Hill Lane | 5bd/3.5ba Q. Grimm/D. Chesler | 650.529.1111

BY APPOINTMENT

$4,898,000

MENLO PARK

$3,200,000

440 Arlington Way | 4bd/2ba M. Corman/M. Safka | 650.462.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

345 Seale Avenue I 3bd/3ba J. James/J. Decker I 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

PALO ALTO

$11,750,000

MENLO PARK

$2,995,000

$2,275,000

48 Mansion Court | 3bd/2.5ba Steve & Julie Quattrone | 650.462.1111

BY APPOINTMENT

373 George Hood Lane | 4bd/3ba Nadr Essabhoy | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

LOS ALTOS

$6,995,000

72 View Street | 5bd/3.5ba Kathy Bridgman | 650.941.1111

BY APPOINTMENT

MENLO PARK

$2,998,000

777 Sharon Park Drive | Lot J. James/E. Voskerician | 650.323.1111

BY APPOINTMENT

SAN CARLOS

$1,395,000

1153 Walnut Street | 3bd/2ba Tim Anderson | 650.941.1111

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145 Non-Profits Needs

Bulletin Board 115 Announcements Pregnant?

Thinking of adoption? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide.

LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293.

Void in Illinois/ New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN) PREGNANT?CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 1-877-879-4709 Dance Classes for kids & teens FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY George Burns in Menlo Park!

245 Miscellaneous

DID YOU KNOW Newspaper-generated content is so valuable it’s taken and repeated, condensed, broadcast, tweeted, discussed, posted, copied, edited, and emailed countless times throughout the day by others? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising.

For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARIES Volunteer with Stanford Museums WISH LIST FRIENDS PA LIBRARY

150 Volunteers Become a Nature Volunteer!

Fosterers Needed for Moffet Cats FRIENDS BOOKSTORE MITCHELL PARK

Stanford music tutoring

Plush Cat Bed - Activity Center - $10.00

250 Musical Instruments clarinet - $50

Kid’s Stuff

JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM

330 Child Care Offered

Research at Stanford Needs You!

Nanny available for hire

FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY

152 Research Study Volunteers

HUGE USED BOOK SALE

SAWMILLS from only $4397.00MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill- Cut lumber any dimension.

In stock ready to ship. FREE Info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext.300N

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345 Tutoring/ Lessons Online Writing Tutor

130 Classes & Instruction Aviation Grads Work with JetBlue, Boeing, NASA and others- start here with hands on training for FAA certification. Financial aid if qualified. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) German Language Classes Instruction for Hebrew Bar and Bat Mitzvah.

For Affiliated and Unaffiliated. George Rubin, M.A. in Hebrew/Jewish Education 650/424-1940

Having Sleep Problems?

If you are 60 years or older, you may be eligible to participate in a study of Non-Drug Treatments for Insomnia sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and conducted at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Medical Center. Participants will receive extensive sleep evaluation, individual treatment, and reimbursement for participation. For more information, please call Stephanie or Ryan at (650) 849-0584. (For general information about participant rights, contact 866-680-2906.)

Mind & Body 403 Acupuncture

For Sale

Hope Street Music Studios In downtown Mtn.View.

Most Instruments voice.

All ages & levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

202 Vehicles Wanted

135 Group Activities Learn how to Square Dance Come try something new this year!!

New class begins Monday Jan. 19, & 26th 2015, 7:30 P.M. Loyola School, 770 Berry Avenue, Los Altos For solo, singles and couples January classes are FREE www.bowsandbeaus.org or 650/390-9261

Square Dance Lessons

Mountain View, 1005 High School Way, Saturday Nov 15 8-3

Thanks St Jude Writing for healing

140 Lost & Found DID YOU KNOW that not only does newspaper media reach a HUGE Audience, they also reach an ENGAGED AUDIENCE. Discover the Power of NewspaperAdvertising.

For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com Found: Nintendo 3DS XL Found: Sunglasses RING FOUND Thin woman’s ring found in downtown Palo Alto parking lot.

Woman’s ring found Woman’s Ring: Found in parking lot near Il Fornio. Contact to describe.

NOON, WEDNESDAY

DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT TO HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. 800-731-5042

210 Garage/Estate Sales

Scottish Country Dance Palo Alto

Classified Deadlines:

Cash for Cars Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

PA: 3890 Corina Way; 1/11, 8-4 Estate Sale. 50+ years. Everything goes.

W/D, vintage furn., appliances, oriental rugs, dishes, crystal, freebies. x-Ross Road.

Treatments for Alzheimers Acupuncturist Jay Wang PhD, specialized in chronical illness for seniors.

Call 650-485-3293 for a free consultation. 747 Altos Oaks Dr., Los Altos

425 Health Services Safe Step Walk-In Tub! Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation.

Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch StepIn. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included.

Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off.

Jobs 500 Help Wanted

Palo Alto, 531 Alger Drive, Jan 10, 9-11am

Inventory Takers Now hiring! Start: $10.75/hr. Flex P/T work! Reg wage reviews.

Advancement oppts. Must have reliable trans. EEO/Vet/Disabled.

Apply at www.rgisinv.com Select San Francisco Bay Area.

215 Collectibles & Antiques

No phone

Palo Alto, 4000 Middlefield Road, Jan. 10 & 11, 10-4

Antique Chinese Pictograph/ Sign $1495.00 Bonsai Collection

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648 HorsesBoarding/Training Private Stable across from Spring Down. 11 acres pasture. 24/7 care, feed. $850.

650/851-1796

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Home Services

560 Employment Information $$HELP WANTED$$ Earn Extra income, assembling CD cases.

Call our Live Operators NOW! 800-267-3944 Ext 3090. www.easywork-greatpay.com (Not Valid in MD) AVON Earn extra income with a new career!

Sell from home, work, online. $15 startup. For information, call: 877-830-2916.

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Schedule your interview at www.bizpro121.com Paid In Advance!!

Make $1000 a Week Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience required. Start Immediately www.themailinghub.com (AAN CAN) TTN: Drivers - $2K Sign-On Bon Love your $55K Job! $2K Sign-On Bonus + Benefits. Avg $1100 Weekly. CDL-A Req - (877) 258-8782 www.addrivers.com

133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction (650) 493-6950

640 Legal Services

Newspaper Delivery Routes Immediate Openings Routes available to deliver the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning community newspaper, to homes in Palo Alto on Fridays. From approx. 440 to 1,140 papers, 8.25 cents per paper (plus bonus for extra-large editions).

Additional bonus following successful 13 week introductory period.

Must be at least 18 y/o. Valid CDL, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance req’d. Please email your experience and qualifications to jon3silver@yahoo.com. Or (best) call Jon Silver, 650-868-4310

Business Services

707 Cable/Satellite DISH TV Retailer.

Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available.) SAVE! Ask About SAME DAY Installation!

CALL Now! 1-800-357-0810.

Get The Big Deal from DirecTV! Act Now- $19.99/mo. Free 3-Months of HBO, starz, SHOWTIME & CINEMAX. FREE GENIE HD/DVR Upgrade! 2014 NFL Sunday Ticket. Included with Select Packages. New Customers Only. IV Support Holdings LLC- An authorized DirecTV Dealer. Some exclusions apply Call for details 1-800-385-9017

748 Gardening/ Landscaping J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781 LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil *Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash *Irrigation timer programming.

18 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 landaramon@yahoo.com

624 Financial Are you in BIG trouble with th Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Seen on CNN. A BBB. Call 1-800-761-5395.

Big Trouble with IRS? Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317 (AAN CAN) Do you owe over $10,000 to the IRS or State in back taxes? Get tax relief now! Call BlueTax, the nation’s full service tax solution firm. 800-393-6403.

Reduce Your Past Tax Bill by as much as 75 Percent. Stop Levies, Liens and Wage Garnishments. Call The Tax DR Now to see if you Qualify 1-800-498-1067 SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BEN Unable to work? Denied benefits?

We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing!

Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-966-1904 to start your application today!

R.G. Landscape Yard Clean-ups, debris removal, maintenance, installations. Free est.

650/468-8859 Tired of Mow, Blow and Go? Owner operated, 40 years exp.

All phases of gardening/landscaping.

Ref. Call Eric, 408/356-1350

751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

636 Insurance Auto Insurance starting at $25/month!

Call 855-977-9537 (AAN CAN)

759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., mattresses, green waste, more.

Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 (see my Yelp reviews)

Lowest Prices on Health & Dental Insurance. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807.

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771 Painting/ Wallpaper DAVID AND MARTIN PAINTING Quality work Good references Low price Lic. #52643

(650) 575-2022

Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 STYLE PAINTING Full service painting. Insured.

Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

775 Asphalt/ Concrete Answers on page 48

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Across 1 Mix those ingredients 5 Carried 10 Totally dominates 14 Holder of scoops 15 County of New Mexico or Colorado 16 Go on a rampage 17 Turing played by Benedict 18 “The Last Supper” city 19 ___ Romeo (nice car) 20 Proof you paid 22 Frying pan 24 Palindromic girl’s name 25 King, in Quebec 26 Extremity 27 “Lost” actor Daniel ___ Kim 28 PBS painter known for “happy little trees”* 30 Crack-loving ex-Toronto mayor * 32 Insect that sounds like a relative 33 Leaves for the afternoon?

34 Student loans, for instance 37 Start 41 Minivan passengers 45 Social networking site in 2014 news 46 Exploding stars 47 Gaelic music star 48 On the edge of 50 Greek consonants 51 “Melrose Place” actor Rob 52 Low limb 53 Part of a yr.

55 Its symbol is its first letter with two lines through it 57 Magazine inserts 58 Prime minister from 2007-2010* 62 Chatty show, with “The” 64 Most of the Earth’s surface 65 Affixes 68 Plot of land, often 69 Rows on a chessboard 70 Michael of “Superbad” 71 Word often misused in place of “fewer” 72 Rough weather 73 Sign, or an alternate title for this puzzle?

Down 1 Beetle-shaped amulet 2 Ohio city 3 Riding with the meter running 4 Descartes or Magritte 5 He played George Utley on “Newhart”* 6 Inflammation of the ear 7 ___ Aviv 8 Blackboard need 9 “The Andy Griffith Show” co-star* 10 Like some vaccines 11 “Sure thing!”

12 What a hero has 13 Put into words 21 Make a shirt look nicer 23 “___ delighted!”

29 Tell the teacher about 31 Forgeries 34 Find a way to cope 35 Magazine with a French name 36 Post-industrial workers?

38 Like shrugs and nods, as signals go 39 “Law & Order” spinoff, for short 40 Early oven manufacturer?

42 Working together 43 Applied henna 44 Answer with an attitude 49 “Paradise City” band, briefly 51 “Music for Airports” composer Brian 54 Dumpster emanations 56 Bond foe ___ Stavro Blofeld 59 Has to pay back 60 “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star ___ Leakes 61 1993 Texas standoff city 62 Kilmer who chunked out in the late 2000s 63 Word in cheesy beer names 66 Beats by ___ (brand of audio equipment) 67 ___ Bernardino

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Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572

779 Organizing Services End the Clutter & Get Organized Residential Organizing

by Debra Robinson (650)390-0125

Real Estate 803 Duplex MV: 2BR/1.5BA Walk to Springer School, Cuesta Park. $2,750 mo. 650/964-8998

805 Homes for Rent DID YOU KNOW 144 million U.S. Adults read a Newspaper print copy each week?

Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com Los Altos Hills, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $4,950.00 Menlo Park Las Lomitas, 3 BR/2 BA $4300/mo Mountain View, 2 BR/1 BA - $3200.00 Palo Alto Home, 4 BR/2 BA - $4500.mont

809 Shared Housing/ Rooms All Areas: Roommates.com Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com!

(AAN CAN) Los Altos Hills, 5+ BR/2.5 BA - $950/ month

815 Rentals Wanted WANTED - 1BR COTTAGE, 500 SQ FT Do you have a place in Los Altos/ Portola Valley/Palo Alto/Woodside/ Belmont Hills that you would like to rent to the right person? I could help with taking care of the property/ pets (incl horses)/house-sitting. I am moving after living for 12 years in Los Altos Hills because the house is being sold. I am a 51 year old responsible, dependable, trustworthy, considerate woman with excellent references and credit. I have a non-destructive cat.

Reply to commandoandromeo@ gmail.com

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825 Homes/Condos for Sale Menlo Park, 3 BR/2 BA - $899000 Palo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA - $1099000 Sunnyvale, 3 BR/2 BA - $899000

850 Acreage/Lots/ Storage Palo Alto Rare Flat Vacant 1.03 Acre Low Density Residential or SFR $11,888,000 woodside in 30 min 38 knoll top acres cleared w/utlities $3,588,000

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement EASY STREET CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599124 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Easy Street Consulting, located at 19736 Oakmont Dr., Los Gatos, CA 95033, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TONY MARTELLO 19736 Oakmont Dr. Los Gatos, CA 95033 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 9, 2014.

(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599313 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Saratoga Hardware LLC, located at 12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, Saratoga, CA 95070, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SARATOGA HARDWARE LLC 12850 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Saratoga, CA 95070 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 15, 2014.

(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) ENABLE YOUR VISION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599312 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Enable Your Vision, located at 3597 South Court, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): DENISE COLEY 3597 South Court Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/02/14.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 15, 2014.

(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 598743 The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/ have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s).

The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): SMITH WINES 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 11/17/2014 UNDER FILE NO.: 577902 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): PETER MARTIN SMITH 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 DANIELLE RAE SMITH 288 Ferne Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: Married couple.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 25, 2014.

(PAW Dec. 19, 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 2015) Mixbook.com FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599340 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Mixbook.com, located at 409 Sherman Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the

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owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): INTERACTIVE MEMORIES, INC. 409 Sherman Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/21/2006.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 16, 2014.

(PAW Dec. 26, 2014, Jan. 2, 9, 16, 2015) ALVISO FUNDING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599531 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Alviso Funding, located at 13131 Diericx Dr., Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MILESTONE FINANCIAL LLC 13131 Diericx Dr. Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12-22-14.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 22, 2014.

(PAW Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2015) JAMBIP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599596 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Jambip, located at 3247 Murray Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JAYNE PEARCE 3247 Murray Way Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 24, 2014.

(PAW Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015) BLUE TURTLE DENTAL BLUE TURTLE DENTAL, PRACTICE OF K. SCHEEL, DDS INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599774 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Blue Turtle Dental, 2.) Blue Turtle Dental, Practice of K. Scheel, DDS Inc., located at 2290 Birch Street, Ste. A, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): K. SCHEEL, DDS INC. 2290 Birch Street, Ste. A Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 31, 2014.

(PAW Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015) L.S. & CO. LS & CO. LS AND COMPANY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 599976 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) L.S. & CO., 2.) LS & CO., 3.) LS and Company, located at 555 Byron St. #105, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A General Partnership.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): LAURENCE L. SPITTERS 555 Byron St. #105 Palo Alto, CA 904301 LAURENCE LOUIS SPITTERS, JR. 96 N. 3rd., St. San Jose, CA 95112 PETER J. SPITTERS 1346 El Moro Dr. Campbell, CA 95008 ARTHUR J. CASEY 227 N. 1st. St. San Jose, CA 95112 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/05/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 6, 2015.

(PAW Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015)

997 All Other Legals T.S. No. 14-26901 APN: 127-48-023 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 4/3/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC

SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: JOHN H WHARTON, AN UNMARRIED MAN Duly Appointed Trustee: LAW OFFICES OF LES ZIEVE Deed of Trust recorded 4/11/2007 as Instrument No. 19378233 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, Date of Sale:1/16/2015 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the entrance to the Superior Courthouse 190 N Market Street San Jose, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $655,002.71 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 3419 CORK OAK WAY PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Described as follows: AS FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST A.P.N #.: 127-48-023 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 8489272 or visit this Internet Web site www. elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 14-26901.

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Dated: 12/18/2014 Law Offices of Les Zieve, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.com ______________________________ Natalie Franklin, Trustee Sale Officer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. EPP 10879 12/26, 1/2, 1/9/2015.

PAW T.S. No.: 9448-7004 TSG Order No.: 140181615-CA-MAI A.P.N.: 148-32-194 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 04/06/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 04/14/2005 as Document No.: 18322207, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, executed by: DOROTHY FELT, AS TRUSTEE, OR HER SUCCESSORS, OF THE DOROTHY FELT REVOCABLE TRUST DATED FEBRUARY 14, 1997, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust.

Sale Date & Time: 01/20/2015 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: At the gated North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 49 SHOWERS DRIVE #F433, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS†condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, towit: $293,989.71 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction.

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information

about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9448-7004. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-9390772. NBS Default Services, LLC, Nicole Rodriguez, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only.

NPP0239824 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 12/26/2014, 01/02/2015, 01/09/2015 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE Escrow No.: 0101400835-SR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), and business address(es) of the Seller(s) are: Eric Gonterman and Kathleen Gonterman 100 Kittyhawk Way, Mountain View, CA 94041 Doing Business as: EKG Precision Machining All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/are: (if none, so state) NONE The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s)/applicant(s) is/are: Lenz Precision Technology Inc., a California Corporation 100 Kittyhawk Way, Mountain View, CA 94041 The assets being sold are generally described as: All Fixtures and Equipment, Goodwill, Inventory and all other tangible and intangible assets used in the operation of the above named business, and are located at:100 Kittyhawk Way, Mountain View, CA 94041 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: Fidelity National Title Company, 1375 Exposition Blvd., Suite 240, Sacramento, CA 95815and the anticipated sale date is January 28, 2015.

The Bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: Fidelity National Title Company, 1375 Exposition Blvd., Suite 240, Sacramento, CA 95815, Escrow # 0101400835-SR And the last date for filing claims by a creditor shall be January 27, 2015, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

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LEAVING STANFORD . . . Stanford All-America left tackle Andrus Peat announced Tuesday that he will enter his name into the 2015 NFL Draft.

“It’s been a long and hard decision, but I have decided to forgo my senior season of eligibility and declare for the NFL Draft,” Peat said. “I would like to thank all of my Stanford teammates, coaches and the faculty for helping me grow and enjoy an amazing experience at Stanford University.

I’m excited and ready to take the next big step of my life.” Peat, who earned six All-America honors in 2014, also won the Morris Trophy recipient as the Pac-12 Conference’s top offensive lineman. The psychology major anchored the Cardinal’s offensive line at left tackle in 2014. Peat was the only returning starter from the 2013 season on the line, teaming with four classmates in Stanford’s 2012 recruiting class for an all-junior unit that helped the Cardinal average 158.8 yards/game on the ground. Peat was vital to Stanford allowing only 23 sacks this season. Peat, an Outland Trophy quarterfinalist and member of the All-Pac-12 first team, started the final 27 games of his career. Also announcing that he’s leaving early for the NFL was junior cornerback Alex Carter.

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Heart Prep remained undefeated (11-0-2) against Menlo since the teams began playing each other in the WBAL in 2009.

“Me personally, I don’t want to be the man in charge of losing that streak,” said Sacred Heart Prep head coach Armando del Rio, who is now 50-2-5 in the WBAL in his fifth season. “We never talk about it, but the (team) knows.”

Tinsley led the Gators with one goal and one assist, and the Menlo defense had no answer to the senior’s aggressiveness near the goal.

“He’s athletic, he’s got some speed and some physicality,” Menlo head coach Marc Kerrest said of Tinsley. “He’s got a little bit of attitude too, and that’s what comes out of this rivalry. Kids are going to play hard and it’s going to get a little physical.”

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Riley Tinsley gives Danny Sanchez a lift while Cam Chapman joins the celebration following a goal by Sanchez to cap SHP’s 2-0 win over Menlo.

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Uplifting win for SHP boys Gators keep their streak against Menlo intact with WBAL-opening win

by Ari Kaye lthough the Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo School boys soccer teams were squaring off Wednesday afternoon, the contest looked more like a football game with the number of players who ended up sprawled out on the ground.

The referees kept their whistles silent for most of the contest, allowing the two rival teams to play a physical game in their first West Bay Athletic League matchup of the season.

Sacred Heart Prep performed well in the rough- and-tumble contest, scoring two second-half goals to defeat Menlo, 2-0. The Gators improved to 5-1-2 overall while the Knights fell to 2-4-1.

“We’re more physical than any team we go against,” said senior Riley Tinsley, who was also a member of the undefeated SHP football team. “That’s how we love to play. We practice hard and we prepare for it.”

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he 15th-ranked Stanford women’s basketball team will learn a lot about itself this week when it makes the trek to play at Washington on Friday night and at Washington State on Sunday afternoon.

Both schools in the Pacific Northwest have aspirations beyond just being competitive. The Huskies beat Stanford in Seattle last season and they think it can happen again.

Utah coach Anthony Levrets thinks Stanford (20, 10-4) is vulnerable and will have to go some to continue its streak of consecutive Pac-12 championships, which is at 15 and counting.

“Stanford is a good team, a young team but they are not a dominant force,” Levrets said after the Utes lost to the Cardinal, 55-44, on Monday. “The league is really good and the Ogwumike’s changed what they were doing the last six years. They don’t have that Amber Orrange team right now, although they could later in the season.”

Washington (1-1, 12-2) was one of three teams to beat the Cardinal last year, earning an 87-82 win in Seattle in front of 2,797 fans. The Huskies expect a larger turnout for this weekend’s contest. The 7 p.m. contest will be televised by the Pac-12 Networks.

Stanford has won 14 of the past 15 played against Washington.

The Cougars (1-1, 10-3) are off to their best start in years and feel they can compete with anybody in the conference.

Both Washington schools lost at Arizona State and beat host Arizona last week. The Sun Devils (2-0, 131) have the conference’s best overall record.

Amber Orrange scored a game-high 17 points to lead the Cardinal get past Utah. She has scored 43 points on 16-of-33 shooting in her past two games after producing 38 points on 14-of-43 shooting her previous five games combined.

“I don’t think I’ve ever taken this many shots before,” Orrange said. “I’m just looking to shoot more.

When I missed before, I’d shy away from shooting.

Now I will still shoot if I have an open look.”

Lili Thompson added 14 points and survived a scary moment after trying to take a charge with 5:40 remaining to play in the game. She was slow to get up and never returned to the game.

“I didn’t get the call,” Thompson said. “She just knocked the air out of me.”

Stanford was up by 10 at the time and extended its lead to 55-40 with 1:38 left before the Utes scored the game’s final four points.

“It was a very physical game and it was hard for us to get into a flow,” VanDerveer said. “In the second half, things opened up a little more and Amber and Lili did a good job of getting into the paint and getting to the foul line.”

The Cardinal, which led 20-14 at halftime, was 10 of 20 from the field in the second half. Stanford attempted a season-low eight 3-pointers. The 55 points were a season low in a victory.

Bonnie Samuelson recorded a career-high seven rebounds, matching Orrange and freshman Kaylee Johnson for team best.

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COMING TO THE FARM . . . Hart High senior wide receiver Trenton Irwin no doubt will be forgiven for tweeting his football commitment to the “University of Stanford” on Tuesday. Irwin (6-2, 190) will surely come to know more about Leland Stanford, Jr. when he joins the Foster Farms Bowl champion Cardinal in the fall. The best thing about his commitment tweet? He used big, bold letters to announce it to his followers sometime after noon. “i just committed to the university of Stanford”. The state all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards chose Stanford over Arizona State, where his high school quarterback, Brady White, is headed.

In four years with the Indians, Irwin hauled in 285 passes for 5,272 yards and scored 57 touchdowns (61 total).

Irwin set the record in his final game, with 15 catches for 165 yards. Irwin never really considered going anywhere outside of the Pac-12 Conference.

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Pinewood, Eastside Prep girls renew their rivalry

by Keith Peters

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or the past five years, very little has separated the Pinewood and Eastside Prep girls during the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) regular season as both teams are 5-5 against each other.

Pinewood went 2-0 against Eastside Prep last season while the record was reversed in 2013.

The three previous seasons, the teams split during the regular season.

The annual struggle between the teams will continue on Friday night when Pinewood hosts Eastside Prep in the first of two regular-season showdowns at 6:30 p.m.

Both teams tuned up for the battle with victories on Tuesday night to open their WBAL Foothill Division campaigns.

In Los Altos Hills, Pinewood posted a 72-27 blowout win over Notre Dame-San Jose. The Panthers (1-0, 7-2) had 11 players score, with junior Chloe Eackles leading the way with 13 points with freshman Stella Kailahi adding 11 points and 12 rebounds.

In East Palo Alto, Eastside Prep raced to a 39-20 halftime lead before holding off pesky Sacred Heart Prep, 64-59. Freshman Kayla Tahaare led the Panthers (1-0, 11-2) with 16 points.

Destiny Graham added 15 points and 13 rebounds. with fellow seniors Brije Byers and Chaccity Cunningham finishing with 14 and 10 points, respectively.

In WBAL Skyline Division action, Priory (0-1, 2-1) got 34 points from freshman Taiana Reese in a 68-46 loss to host Harker. Reese is averaging 36.3 points a game.

On Wednesday, Palo Alto opened its SCVAL De Anza Division season with a solid defensive effort in a 45-34 victory over visiting Gunn. The Vikings (1-0, 11-2) also used their advantage at the free-throw line (17 of 30) as the Titans made 8 of 15.

Paly grabbed a 27-11 halftime lead despite a cold-shooting night — especially from 3-point range where the Vikings were just 4 of 28. Paly failed to score on a field goal in the fourth quarter, but did make nine free throws to help offset 24 turnovers in the game.

Juniors Maddy Atwater and Coco Lovely had 11 and 10 points, respectively, for the Vikings.

In Millbrae, Menlo-Atherton opened its PAL South Division season with a 46-42 victory over host Mills. The Bears (1-0, 8-4) pulled away from an 8-8 tie after the first quarter to grab a 26-20 halftime lead. Sophomore post Ofa Sili scored the Bears’ first 14 points of the game and finished with 18 points.

Boys basketball Getting 17 points from senior

Kevin Mullin, Palo Alto opened its SCVAL De Anza Division season with a 58-44 victory over visiting Fremont on Tuesday night.

The Vikings (1-0, 10-2), coming off a title at the Windsor Tournament last week, won their sixth straight as a 22-point second quarter propelled them 35-20 halftime lead. Mullin, who was the Most Outstanding Player in last week’s tourney, had a trio of treys plus six rebounds, four assists and two steals.

In Santa Clara, Gunn opened its SCVAL El Camino Division season with a 48-45 victory over Santa Clara. Junior Alex Gil-Fernandez led the Titans (1-0, 7-1) with 16 points with David LeeHeidenreich adding 12.

In the WBAL, defending cochamp Sacred Heart Prep opened its league season with a solid 6458 victory over host Priory.

In East Palo Alto, defending co-champ Pinewood also opened WBAL play with a victory, 67-51, over Eastside Prep. It was the first loss for the host Panthers after seven straight wins. Ryan Brice tallied 16 points to pace Pinewood (1-0, 7-2).

In Atherton, Menlo School got 17 points each from seniors Jack Hammond and Liam Dunn in a 64-54 victory over visiting Harker. The Knights (7-3) jumped out of the gate quickly with a 25-point first quarter.

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“That’s the hard thing about having a rivalry game in soccer, it’s to the detriment of the game because nobody wants to lose,” del Rio said. “So I think people play tense and frenetic.”

Although Sacred Heart Prep controlled the ball for much of the first half, Menlo was almost able to strike first, as junior forward Will Chisholm drove a beautiful ball toward the goal near the end of the half.

However, Chisholm’s shot was denied by a nice save from Gators goalkeeper Zach Haire, and the game remained scoreless at the half.

Less than four minutes into the second half, Sacred Heart Prep took its first lead of the game, as Gators senior forward Philip Petrakian’s shot deflected towards the goal, and was kicked through the net by Tinsley to put Sacred Heart Prep up 1-0.

“I really hate to say that it was my goal because it was Phil’s shot, I didn’t even need to touch it,”

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The sophomore guard earned MVP honors while sparking a pair of basketball wins, tallying 18 points to beat Menlo before adding eight points to help beat ND-Belmont in the finals of the Steve Geramoni Invitational.

The senior guard was named the Most Outstanding Player as he produced 60 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists in three wins, including a 60-58 overtime victory over Northgate to win the Windsor Tournament title.

Honorable mention Maddy Atwater Palo Alto basketball

Destiny Graham Eastside Prep basketball

Riley Hemm Sacred Heart Prep basketball

Ofa Sili Menlo-Atherton basketball

Leah Swig Menlo soccer

Alexandra Walker Menlo soccer

Ian Cramer Gunn wrestling

Seth Goyal Palo Alto wrestling

Scott Harris* Priory basketball

Andy Isokpehi Priory basketball

Corbin Koch Sacred Heart Prep basketball

Mason Randall* Sacred Heart Prep basketball * previous winner

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Tinsley said.

The Gators continued to control the ball in the second half, and with 18:20 left to play scored their second goal of the game, as sophomore Danny Sanchez scored on a nice assist from Tinsley. “(Sanchez) is kind of calm, cool and collected, and sometimes we’re on him to have a little bit more edge,” del Rio said. “But this game was perfect for him because it got so physical that I think we needed someone to play calmly.”

Although neither team had many more scoring chances for the rest of the contest, the action on the field remained intense, as the physical play lasted until the final whistle blew.

“These games always get a little chippy,” Kerrest said. “I think it’s unfortunate to see. I talked to my boys about it. I was hoping we could keep our composure a little bit better, but the moment kind of gets to them.”

Wednesday’s game was the first time since 2012 that Menlo and Sacred Heart Prep had faced each other in their first WBAL game of the season, and Tinsley said although it was a little strange

Men’s volleyball No. 10 Stanford continues its season-opening homestand with games in Maples Pavilion against No. 9 Lewis on Friday and topranked Loyola Chicago on Saturday, both at 7 p.m. as part of the AVCA Showcase.

The Pac-12 Networks will televise the Cardinal’s match against Loyola Chicago.

The Cardinal opened its season with a four-set win over UC Santa Cruz, with fifth-year senior Daniel Turblin leading the team with 10 kills. Freshman Kyle Dagistino started at setter.

Stanford’s regular setter is AllAmerican James Shaw, the son of former Cardinal men’s and women’s volleyball coach Don Shaw.

Loyola Chicago is the defending national champion. Final Four participant BYU will also be involved in the showcase this weekend. The Cougars and Ramblers meet Friday.

Last year, Stanford outlasted BYU in five sets to reach the NCAA finals for the fifth time in program history, where it ultimately fell to Loyola Chicago in four sets.

playing Menlo so early in the season, he liked the challenge it presented.

“You got to come out ready at the beginning of the league, it gives you something to look forward to,” he said.

In other WBAL action Wednesday, Priory opened its league season with a 1-0 victory over visiting Crystal Springs on an own goal that resulted when Sam Ogunleye crossed a ball along the goal line and it deflected off a Crystal Springs defender and into the cage in the 23rd minute. The Panthers improved to 4-3 overall.

On Tuesday, Palo Alto opened 2015 with a solid 3-0 nonleague victory over visiting Gunn. Ed Chen provided the eventual winning goal in the first half off an assist from Ariya Momoney as the Vikings improved to 4-1-2 while Gunn dropped to 3-4-1.

Brian Tracy (assisted by Chen) and Dami Bolarinwa (assist Wesley Woo) added second-half goals for Paly, which had several nearmiss shots before Chen struck a hard shot from outside the box that deflected off the bar with Tracy finishing in the 70th minute.

Men’s swimming No. 10 Stanford (2-0) returns to action Saturday with an 11 a.m. home meet against Pacific.

The Cardinal won the Art Adamson Invitational at Texas A&M the last out in November, accumulating 1,523 points, 950 more than runner-up LSU. Q Girls soccer Despite out-shooting visiting Burlingame by a wide 25-4 margin, host Menlo-Atherton suffered a 2-1 loss to open its PAL Bay Division season on Tuesday. Even worse for the Bears, they saw their leading goal-scorer, sophomore Katie Guenin, go down with a serious injury in the fifth minute.

In the 15th minute of the game, M-A lost possession of the ball on defense when Alexis Prieto of Burlingame picked the ball off the dribble from a defender and lofted it over the head of the M-A keeper to get the Panthers on the board at 1-0. M-A followed up with 11 shots in the first half, but simply couldn’t find the net despite a number of good scoring chances.

In the 33rd minute, a throw-in from junior Kelsey Reed to sophomore Nicole Salz popped back out to Reed and she converted with a strong shot from outside the box to put M-A on the board.

Despite a furious attack in the final seven minutes (and a total of 14 second-half shots), the Bears (0-1, 3-2-1) went down to defeat.

In nonleague action, host Sacred Heart Prep (4-2-1) played St. Ignatius to a scoreless tie. Q

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CROSS COUNTRY ALL-PENINSULA ATHLETIC LEAGUE (Based on placing at all-league meet) Clara Fassinger (Half Moon Bay) Jr.; Sarah Gayer (Mills) So.; Carmen Zafra (Half Moon Bay) Jr.; Katie Beebe (MenloAtherton) Jr.; Cat DePuy (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.; Lydia Villa (Aragon) Fr.; Annalisa Crowe (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.; Madeleine Baier (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.; Hannah Lampson (Aragon) Fr.; Mackenzie Faust (Half Moon Bay) So.; Kara Herson (Woodside) So.; Ashley Utz (Half Moon Bay) Sr.; Jillian Jordan (Burlingame) Fr.; Jackie Greene (Burlingame) So.; Olivia Tai (Menlo-Atherton) So.

Sasaki (San Mateo) Sr.; Allie Economou (Burlingame) Sr.; Ashley Utz (MenloAtherton) Sr.; Valerie Chen (Aragon) Sr.

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GOLF ALL-PENINSULA ATHLETIC LEAGUE Player of the Year: Aman Sangha (San Mateo) Jr. First Team Aman Sangha (San Mateo) Jr.; Kiran Sangha (San Mateo) Fr.; Naomi Lee (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Kelly Fang (Aragon) Sr.; Tessa Ulrich (Aragon) So.; Abbey Pederson (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Lisa

ALL-WEST BAY ATHLETIC LEAGUE Foothill Division Most Valuable Player: Sara Choy (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr. First Team Elizabeth Yao (Menlo School); Alice Yao (Menlo School); Georgia Anderson (Menlo School); Sadie Bronk (Menlo School); Mia McConnell (Menlo School); Celeste Woloshyn (Castilleja); Wallis Hess (Castilleja); Melina Stavropoulos (Sacred Heart Prep); Arden Hu (Harker); Elizabeth Schick (Harker) Second Team Elika Eshgni (Menlo School); Melissa Tran (Menlo School); Schuyler TilneyVolk (Menlo School); Tara Ritchey (Sacred Heart Prep); Era Iyer (Harker); Gloria Guo (Harker); Connie Miao (Harker); Nike Flamen (Castilleja); Julia McKay (Castilleja); Tia Lee (King’s Academy) Honorable Mention Kathryn Wilson (Menlo School); Kaitlin Hao (Menlo School); Courtney Schulz (Crystal Springs); Hannah Maluth (Crystal Springs); Anna Verwillow (Castilleja); Megan Colford (Castilleja); Rosie Crisman (Castilleja); Alisa Bahri (Harker); Maya Valluru (Harker); Lauren Trihy (Sacred Heart Prep) Skyline Division Co-Most Valuable Player: Julia Owens (Pinewood); Vi-Van Nguyen (Notre Dame-SJ) First Team Kacsey Walsh (Priory); Leah Hess

ALL-WEST BAY ATHLETIC LEAGUE Foothill Division Most Valuable Player: Shreya Dixit (Harker) Sr. First Team Elisa Merten (Menlo School) Sr.; Doreene Kang (Harker) Jr.; Victoria Garrick (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Kijana Best (Mercy-SF) Sr.; Payton Mack (Menlo School) Jr.; Lida Vandermeer (Menlo School) Sr.; Madeline Johnson (Castilleja) Jr. Second Team Amelia Smith (Notre Dame-SJ) So.; Analyn Abad (Mercy-SF) Sr.; Shannon Richardson (Harker) Jr.; Natalie Marshall (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Jessica Houghton (Menlo School) So.; Jacquelyn Yee (Mercy-SF) Jr.; Taylor McNeil (Mercy-SF) Sr. Honorable Mention Jorden Schreeder (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.; Caroline Chmielewski-Anders (Notre Dame-SJ) So.; Jennifer DiSanto (Castilleja) Sr.; Rachel Cheng (Harker) So.; Jackie Chen (Harker) Jr. Skyline Division Most Valuable Player: Louise Hardiman (Mercy-Burlingame) So. First Team Mehra den Braven (Pinewood) Jr.; Angelica De (Crystal Springs) Jr.; Julia Ferraro (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Andria Larratt (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Milan Loiacono (King’s Academy) Sr.; Rose Gold (Crystal Springs) Sr.; Tehmi den Braven (Pinewood) Jr. Second Team Esi Thompson (Eastside Prep) Sr.; Allie Lum (Crystal Springs) Sr.; Samantha Sargent (Priory) Fr.; Claire Hardiman (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Julie Alas (King’s Academy) Sr.; Maddie Escher (Pinewood) Fr.; Sabrina Santo (MercyBurlingame) Sr. Honorable Mention Kathleen Dougherty (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Sam Bares (Pinewood) Fr.; Sydney Stratford (Pinewood) Jr.; Maddie Clay (Crystal Springs) Sr.; Autumn Aubrey (King’s Academy) So.; Sarah Byrne (King’s Academy) Jr.; Abigail Sylvester (Eastside Prep) Sr.

WATER POLO Keith Peters

ALL-WEST BAY ATHLETIC LEAGUE Most Valuable: Lizzie Lacy (Menlo School) Sr. First Team Niki Iyer (Harker) So.; Juliana Mount (Notre Dame-SJ) Sr.; Lianne Blodgett (Crystal Springs) Sr.; Meghan Boyer (Mercy-Burlingame) Jr.; Hana Marsheck (Priory) Jr.; Katie Chu (Crystal Springs) Sr.; Nicole Colonna (Pinewood) Sr. Second Team Helena Merk (Pinewood) So.; Kari Bergstedt (King’s Academy) So.; Eliza Crowder (Menlo School) So.; Danielle Tatsuno (King’s Academy) Jr.; Ingrid Spielbauer (Notre Dame-SJ) Jr.; Fernanda Salguero (King’s Academy) Sr.; Emily Cox (Notre Dame-SJ) Sr.; Britney Biddle (Crystal Springs) Sr. Honorable Mention Alex Dellar (Harker) Jr.; Aria Coalson (Harker) Fr.; Natalie Novitsky (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Katie Harrison (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Alex Stout (Castilleja) Fr.; Riya Berry (Castilleja) Fr.; Brooke Hammarskjold (Menlo School) Sr.; Quynh Tran (Mercy-SF) Jr.; Priscilla Chung (Mercy-SF) Jr.; Ashley Lamug (Mercy-SF) Sr.; Zoe Jinishian (MercyBurlingame) Fr.; Lauren Tifft (MercyBurlingame) Sr.; Meilani Makhni (Notre Dame-SJ) Sr.; Scarlett Manzano (Notre Dame-SJ) So.; Chelsea Chen (Notre Dame-SJ) Jr.; E.V. Nora (Crystal Springs) So.; Eliana Fuchs (Crystal Springs) Fr.; Kenia French (Crystal Springs) Jr.

ALL-PAL BAY DIVISION First Team Lanie Van Linge (Menlo-Atherton) Fr.; Sami Andrew (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Julia Marks (Menlo-Atherton) Fr; Veronika Dvorak (Carlmont) Sr.; Mar Burgueno (Carlmont) Jr.; Mariko Iinuma (Hillsdale) Sr. Second Team Sadie Rhen (Sequoia) Jr.; Nia Walton (Sequoia) Jr.; Monica Chanda (Woodside) Sr.; Kathy Li (Hillsdale) So.; Morgan Watson (Carlmont) Jr.; Sagricka Jawadi (Aragon) So.; Aida Lowe (San Mateo) Fr.; Michelle Kwon (San Mateo) Jr.; Loren Young (San Mateo) Fr.; Emily Chang (San Mateo) Fr.; Natalie Somers (Burlingame) Jr.; Sarah Sinatra (Burlingame) Jr.; Cassidy Sobe (Carlmont) Jr.; Pareesa Darafshi (Carlmont) Sr.; Snehal Pandey (Carlmont) So.; Julia Chang (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Taylor Noble (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Caroline Kelly (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Laila Volpe (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Amelia Tiemann (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Salley Carlson (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Amanda Scandalios (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.

VOLLEYBALL ALL-SCVAL DE ANZA DIVISION Most Valuable Player: Carmen Annevelink (Los Altos) Outstanding Senior: Katie Barker (Homestead) Outstanding Junior: Chanti Holroyd (Mountain View) Outstanding Sophomore: Jessica Lee (Palo Alto) Outstanding Freshman: Eleonore Johansen (Monta Vista) and Kiana Pelton (Los Gatos) Coach of the Year: Peter Kim (Los Altos) First Team Connor Bunka (Homestead) Sr. OH; Katie Barker (Homestead) Sr. OH; Maria Balus (Homestead) Sr. setter; Joyce Christiansen-Salameh (Los Altos) Sr. setter; Lulu Kishton (Los Altos) Jr. OH; Sara Tritschler (Los Altos) Jr. DS; Jensen Ditzler (Los Gatos) Sr. DS; Sarah Nelson (Los Gatos) Jr. setter; Tori Taormina (Los Gatos) Sr. OH; Chanti Holroyd (Mountain View) Jr.OH Second Team Meghan Mahoney (Gunn) Sr. OH; Celine Lee (Homestead) Jr. DS; Megan Cheng (Homestead) Sr. OPP; Sofia Olsen (Homestead) Jr. MB; Megan Wilhelm (Los Altos) Jr. OPP; Shea O’Gorman (Los Gatos) Sr. OH; Emma Blockhus (Mountain View) Jr. MB; Anna Dukovic (Palo Alto) Sr. OH; Jade Schoenberger (Palo Alto) Sr. OH Honorable Mention Jessica Dinneen (Gunn) Sr. OPP; Nicole Brigham (Gunn) Sr. setter; Tahra Knudsen (Gunn) Sr. DS; Jenna Hoover (Los Altos) Sr. MB; Stacia Hendee (Los Gatos) Jr. OH; Ellie Cary (Monta Vista) So. OH; Sydney Howard (Monta Vista) Jr. setter; Cynthia Moir (Mountain View) Jr. setter; Elyse Fitzsimons (Mountain View) Sr. MB; Jessica Lee (Palo Alto) So. setter

Sr.; Ali Vadali (Terra Nova) Sr.; Danielle LaForce (Woodside) Sr. Second Team Brittney Carias (Burlingame) Sr.; Amanda Miller (Burlingame) Jr.; Cherene Uale (Hillsdale) Jr.; Krystal Hin (Terra Nova) Fr.; Jesse Larkin (Woodside) Jr.; Eliza Grover (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Alyssa Ostrow (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Reeza Gaela (South SF) Sr.; Rachel Fink (Sequoia) Jr.; Camille Louie (Sequoia) Sr.; Sabrina Miller (Carlmont) Sr.; Elena Mateus (Carlmont) Jr. Honorable Mention Kaitlin Tavarez (Menlo-Atherton) Sr.; Jacqueline DiSanto (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Rachel Carmen (South SF) Sr.; Julia Carlson (Sequoia) So.; Lizzie Gaddini (Sequoia) Jr.; Lauren Tierney (Carlmont) Sr.; Mia Hogan (Carlmont) Jr.; Ally Laglinais (Burlingame) Fr.; Danika Ferguson (Hillsdale) Jr.; Brianna Tokioka (Hillsdale) Sr.; Neilani Hoeft (Woodside) Sr.

Devin Joos ALL-PAL BAY DIVISION Most Valuable Player: Devin Joos (Menlo-Atherton) Sr. First Team Leanna Collins (Menlo-Atherton) Jr.; Kirby Knapp (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Sharon Tukuaoga (South SF) Sr.; Angela Hudelson (Sequoia) Sr.; Leanne Robinson (Sequoia) So.; Erin Alonso (Carlmont) Jr.; Alexis Morrow (Carlmont) Jr.; Dana Williams (Burlingame) Sr.; Tatum Novitzky (Burlingame) Sr.; Karen Chang (Hillsdale)

ALL-PENINSULA ATHLETIC LEAGUE Bay Division Most Valuable Player: Anna Yu (Castilleja) Sr. Most Valuable Goalie: Francesca Gilles (Menlo-Atherton) Sr. First Team Fernanda Kramer (Castilleja) Sr.; Alex Zafran (Castilleja) Sr.; Nadia Paquin (Menlo-Atherton) Fr.; Kyra Sheeper (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Kristen Denney (Carlmont) Sr.; Fiona Handler (Half Moon Bay) Sr.; Amelia Milne (Burlingame) Jr. Second Team Maddie Tarr (Castilleja) Sr.; Annabelle Paris (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Katelyn McGrath (Carlmont) Sr.; Lauren Racioppi (Carlmont) Sr.; Cole Alves (Woodside)

Keith Peters

ALL-WEST BAY ATHLETIC LEAGUE Player of the Year: Katherine Zhu (Harker) Fr. First Team Jessica Koenig (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Cosi Layton (Castilleja) Fr.; Danielle Mitchell (Castilleja) Sr.; Jessie Rong (Menlo School) Jr.; Chloe Sales (Castilleja) Sr.; Sophie Siminoff (Menlo School) Fr.; Lauren Von Thaden (Sacred Heart Prep) So. Second Team Nicole Mitchell (Castilleja) Sr.; Cami Steppe (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Paris Wilkerson (Castilleja) Jr.; Lauren Yang (Menlo School) So.; Ashley Zong (Harker) Jr. Honorable Mention Isabelle Chun (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.; Justine Cooper (ND-San Jose) Jr.; Maddy Ellison (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.; Sinead Haley (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Nicole Henderson (Menlo School) Jr.; Daphne Liang (Harker) Jr.; Divyha Nekkanti (ND-San Jose) Jr.; Nicole Patricio (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Madelyn Wang (Harker) Sr.

(Pinewood); Hannah Manheim (Pinewood); Kelsey Morris (Notre Dame-SJ); Melissa Yutrzenka (Notre Dame-SJ); Delara Fotovatjah (Priory) Second Team Karina Uppal (Pinewood); Franchesco Faoro (Mercy-Burlingame); Samantha Kotmer (Mercy-Burlingame); Jacqueline Fukomoto (Mercy-SF); Brittany Steinway (Mercy-SF); Annalina Martinez (MercySF); Maddy Drogy (Notre Dame-SJ); Jacey Reed (Priory); Eva Yavorkovsky (Notre Dame-SJ) (Honorable Mention not selected)

Anne Yu Sr.; Tasha Kervick (Sequoia) Sr.; Claire Morrison (Burlingame) Jr.; Ellie Henretty (Half Moon Bay) Jr. Honorable Mention Allison Sullivan Wu (Burlingame) Fr.; Alyson Osgood (Half Moon Bay) Sr.; Kate Denend (Menlo-Atherton) So.; Elise Dimick (Carlmont) Sr.; Sasha Levin-Guracar (Sequoia) Sr.; Celia Aldrete (Castilleja) Jr.; Mina Sealund (Woodside) So. Ocean Division Most Valuable Player: Tessa Draper (Aragon) Sr. Most Valuable Goalie: Eve McNally (Aragon) Sr. First Team Olivia Tobin (Aragon) Fr.; Olivia Casca (Aragon) Sr.; Madison Gomes (MercyBurlingame) Jr.; Jordan Green (MercyBurlingame) Sr.; Audrey Flower (Menlo School) Sr.; Shelby McMillan (MercyBurlingame) Sr.; Alyssa Montserrat (Mills) So. Second Team Maddy Loar (Aragon) Fr.; Nina Moutouz (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Jennie Greenstein (Menlo School) Sr.; Sarah Donato (Menlo School) Fr.; Ava Daniel (Mills) Jr.; Vanessa Kibblewhite (MercyBurlingame) Sr.; Alison Oey (San Mateo) Sr. Honorable Mention Amanda Li (Mills) So.; Taylor Doi (San Mateo) So.; Eddie Kapp (Terra Nova) Jr.; Monika Kepa (Aragon) Jr.; Grace Casolo (Mercy-Burlingame) Sr.; Gillian Bressie (Menlo School) Fr. ALL-WEST CATHOLIC ATHLETIC LEAGUE First Team Malaika Kohy (Sacred Heart Prep) Jr.; Maddy Johnston (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Layla Waters (Sacred Heart Prep) So.; Emily Riley (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Anna Edgington (St. Francis) Sr.; Natalie Williams (St. Francis) Sr.; Isabella Mandema (St. Francis) Fr.; Samantha Baker (Valley Christian) Sr.; Emma Malysz (Presentation) Sr.; Susan Cantoni (Mitty) Sr.; Maura Cantoni (Mitty) Sr.; Katie French (St. Ignatius) Sr. Second Team Catherine Bick (St. Ignatius) Jr.; Allison Schaum (St. Ignatius ) So.; Eleni Giotinis (Notre Dame-Belmont) Sr.; Megan Cosgrave (Notre Dame-Belmont) Sr.; Abbie McGarvey (Mitty) Sr.; Carmen Gardner (Mitty) Sr.; Jalene Weatherholt (Presentation) Sr.; Alexa Grau (Presentation) So.; Christa Santos (Valley Christian) Jr.; Brooke La Velle (Valley Christian) Sr.; Kylie Durekas (St. Francis) Sr.; Kendall McCarrick (St. Francis) Jr.; Megan Anderson (Sacred Heart Prep) Sr.; Maddie Pendolino (Sacred Heart Prep) So. (All-league teams are selected by the coaches. Note: The SCVAL De Anza Division water polo team was not submitted)

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